Chinese-American science fiction writer who wrote The Grace of Kings and The Wall of Storms (Dandelion Dynasty), translated Liu Cixin's Three-Body Problem into English, and whose short fiction The Paper Menagerie won the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards.
Creates science fiction that draws on Chinese history and culture rather than Western mythology — The Grace of Kings transposes the story of Liu Bang and Xiang Yu (the Chu-Han contention) into an epic fantasy that makes Chinese historical consciousness available to Western SF readers.
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