Hao Jing Fang’s Hugo Award-winning science fiction novelette Folding Beijing is set in Beijing, China. Photo: EPA
Science-fiction author Hao Jingfang became the first Chinese woman to win a Hugo Award, beating best-selling horror and fantasy writer Stephen King in the best novelette category.
The 32-year-old from Tianjin, China, received the prize for Folding Beijing, in which she depicts the Chinese capital as a city divided by social class.
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