Hao Jingfang
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Hao Jingfang is a Chinese author born on July 27, 1984 in Tianjin, China. She studied and worked in physics at the Tsinghua University. Later her interests turned to economics and earned a doctoral degree in economics. She currently works as an economic researcher at China Development Research mostrar más Foundation. She has continued to develop her writing since high school, from winning the 2002 first prize at the 4th national high school "New Concept" writing competition, to winning the 2016 Hugo Award for Best Novelette for her work Folding Beijing. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation (2016) — Contribuidor — 561 copias
Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation (2019) — Contribuidor — 370 copias
SFマガジン 2019年 04 月号 — Contribuidor — 1 copia
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- Hao Jingfang
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1984-07-27
- Género
- female
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- China
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Tianjin, China
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But the Martians lack expertise in hydrology and hydraulic engineering. They need help from their watery neighboring world. Help may be arriving soon. The diplomatic ship, the Maearth is returning to Mars with a delegation of political and industrial leaders from Earth and a group of the Martians’ daughters and sons, the Mercury Group. Named for the ancient Roman god, these messengers and exchange students from Mars lived for years on Earth, as good will ambassadors absorbing information about the cultures and ways of their hosts across the globe.
Among them is Luoying, a dancer, and the granddaughter of Hans Sloan, the consul of Mars, or as he’s referred to on Earth, “the great dictator.” On her return home Luoying finds herself somewhat ill at ease, and a bit alienated from her childhood home. And she’s not the only member of the Mercury Group to feel this way. But what are they going to do with these feelings? There is no consensus among them, but they feel they ought to do something. As the author states in the prologue to the first part, “This is a tale of the fall of the last utopia.”
It’s also a highly literate philosophical novel bristling with ideas about politics, human nature, art, and a passion for ideals. It filled to the brim with conflicts: between generations, individual freedom and collective unity, capitalism versus a technological socialist utopia, creativity versus commerce, highbrows versus lowbrows, and chocked full of cultural misunderstandings. Through her characters and the results of their actions, the author presents sound arguments for both sides. The closest she comes to hinting at her own point of view is with her ubiquitous quotes from Albert Camus. This is a true wonder of a book, both subtle and profound.… (más)