Historian Han Qi on why the exchange of scientific knowledge is so important - from astronomy and salt wells to high-speed trains Han Qi is a professor of Chinese history and culture at Hong Kong ...

CHENGDU, ChinaCHENGDU, China — For a few days in October 2023, the capital of the science fiction world was Chengdu, China. Fans traveled from around the world as Worldcon, sci-fi ’s biggest annual ...

Renowned Chinese science fiction writer Liu Cixin is accustomed to suspending his disbelief to appreciate surreal scenes in movies. A new documentary, however, had him reminding himself that ...

The Chinese science fiction trilogy “The Three-Body Problem” has won awards around the world and been heralded by fans including Barack Obama and sci-fi giant George R. R. Martin. Now, the creators of ...

When Ken Liu became the second Chinese-American after Ted Chiang to win major sf awards in the United States, his fans in China were excited. 1 Liu’s “The Paper Menagerie” (2011) won the Nebula Award ...

For sci-fi enthusiast Zhai Keyan, China's science fiction convention in Chengdu still captures his attention as it offers a chance to see the development of the genre which formulated his childhood ...

The Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) has been listed as one of the candidates for the Chinese Academy of Sciences' 2021 Outstanding Science and Technology Achievement Prize for its COVID-19 research.