Anthologies
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume One | 2016 | Buy |
| The Best of Uncanny | 2019 | Buy |
| Sinopticon: A Celebration of Chinese Science Fiction | 2021 | Buy |
Short Stories/Novellas
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Folding Beijing | 2015 | Buy |
Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Vagabonds | 2016 | Buy |
| Jumpnauts | 2024 | Buy |
Hao Jingfang was born in 1984 in Tianjin, China. She studied physics as an undergraduate at Tsinghua University and later earned her PhD in economics and management from the same institution. Her academic training shows up directly in her fiction, which blends hard science concepts with sharp observations about economics and class structure. She works at the China Development Research Foundation and in 2017 founded Tongxing Academy, an education project teaching science and arts to children in remote rural areas.
Hao gained international attention in 2016 when her novelette “Folding Beijing,” translated by Ken Liu, won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette. The story imagines a future Beijing that physically folds to separate three economic classes into different time-shared spaces. It made her the first Chinese woman to receive a Hugo Award. Her first novel published in English, Vagabonds (2020, also translated by Ken Liu), follows a group of Martian teenagers returning home after five years on Earth, caught between two worlds with very different political systems.
Her most recent English-language novel, Jumpnauts (2024), is a first-contact story set against a near-future conflict between Pacific and Atlantic superpowers. The novel draws on Confucian philosophy, particularly the concept of “ren,” or co-humanity. Outside of fiction, Hao has published several novels, short story collections, and essays in Chinese that have not yet been translated into English.