Mr. Chen Qiufan Stanley 陳楸帆先生

Chen Qiufan (a.k.a. Stanley Chan) is a renowned Chinese writer, translator, and futurist. He serves as Deputy Director of the Science Fiction Literature Committee of the China Writers Association, as well as a board member of the China Science Writers Association, a Visiting Scholar at Yale University MacMillan Center（2023-2024）, and a Berggruen Fellow. His major works include Waste Tide, AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future (co-authored with Dr. Kai-Fu Lee), The Algorithm of Life, Zero Carbon China, and Mountain Songs and Sea Ballads, among more than ten published works that have been widely translated into over twenty languages. He has won numerous domestic and international awards, including the Mao Dun Newcomer Award, the Global Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Award, the China Science Fiction Galaxy Award, Asia Weekly’s Top Ten Novels of the Year, and the German Business Book of the Year, among others. His works explore a broad range of themes, encompassing artificial intelligence and technology ethics, climate change and environmental protection, planetary civilization and philosophy of mind.