Name Han Song | ||
Han Song (韩松, born 1965) is a Chinese science fiction writer and a journalist at the Xinhua News Agency.
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Life
Born 1965 in Chongqing, Han works as a journalist for the state news agency Xinhua. His first short story collection, Gravestone of the Universe (1998) waited ten years for publication because publishers found its tone too dark.
Han has received the Chinese Galaxy Award for fiction six times. The LA Times described him as China's premier science fiction writer.
Work
According to the China Daily, Han describes himself as a "staunch nationalist at heart", and his work is critical of China's desire to Westernize as fast as possible: He believes that "fast-track development does not agree with core Asian values", and that adoption of the "alien entities" of science, technology and modernization by the Chinese will turn them into monsters.
A principal subject of Han's work is the conflict between China and the United States, but he also satirizes the overreaching Chinese state. Most of his works are banned in mainland China.