Hao Jingfang

Hao Jingfang (Chinese: 郝景芳; pinyin: Hǎo Jǐngfāng; born 27 July 1984) is a Chinese science fiction writer.^[1] She won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette for Folding Beijing, translated by Ken Liu, at the 2016 Hugo Awards.^[1]

Hao Jingfang
Hao Jingfang in 2017
Native name	郝景芳
Born	(1984-07-27) July 27, 1984 (age 41) Tianjin, China
Occupation	Economy researcher Novelist
Language	Chinese
Nationality	Chinese
Alma mater	Tsinghua University[1]
Genre	Science fiction
Notable works	Folding Beijing
Notable awards	Hugo Award for Best Novelette for Folding Beijing
Children	1, daughter

Biography

Hao Jingfang was born in Tianjin, on 27 July 1984. After high school, she studied, then worked, at Tsinghua University, in the area of physics.^[2] After noticing the economic inequality of China, she studied economics in Tsinghua University, obtained a doctoral degree in 2013, and has worked as a researcher at China Development Research Foundation since then.

In 2002, as a high school student, she won the first prize at the 4th national high school "New Concept" writing competition (新概念作文大赛).^[3] In 2016, she won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette for her work Folding Beijing.^[4] She became the first Chinese woman to win a Hugo Award.^[5]

Vagabonds was shortlisted for the 2021 Arthur C. Clarke Award.^[6] It follows the eighteen-year-old Luoying and her friends, who return to their home planet of Mars after five years on Earth.

Personal life

Hao is married and has a daughter.^[3]

Original works

Novels

• Vagabonds (流浪苍穹). Head of Zeus. 2020 ISBN 978-1982143312.
• Jumpnauts (宇宙跃迁者). Head of Zeus. 2024 ISBN 978-1534422131.

Novella

• Folding Beijing (北京折叠), first published in Chinese in February 2014 in ZUI Found, first published in English in Uncanny Magazine in January–February 2015, later published in the anthology Invisible Planets, ISBN 978-0765384195

Short stories

• The Last Brave Man (最后一个勇敢的人)
• Invisible Planets (看不见的星球), first published in Chinese in New Science Fiction in February–April 2010, first published in English in Lightspeed Magazine in December 2013, later published in the anthology Invisible Planets, ISBN 978-0765384195
• "The New Year Train" (过年回家), first published in Chinese in January 2017 in ELLE China, first published in English in the anthology Broken Stars, ISBN 978-1250297662
• "Qiankun and Alex" (乾坤和亚⼒), first published 2017 in Mirror of Man, later published in the anthology Sinopticon, ISBN 978-1781088524