Chen Qiufan (Stanley Chan) was born in Swatow, China.
He is a science fiction writer, a columnist and an online advertising strategist. He published his first short story in 1997 in <Science Fiction World>, China's largest science fiction magazine. Since 2004, he has published over 30 stories in <Science Fiction World>, <Esquire>, <Chutzpah> and other magazines. His first novella, <The Abyss of Vision>, came out in 2006. He won several awards, Taiwan's Dragon Fantasy Award, China Galaxy Award, Chinese Nebula Award and a SF & Fantasy Translation Award (Translated by Ken Liu). He had several stories translated into English (mostly by Ken Liu) and Italian can be found on Clarkesworld, Interzone, F & SF and other anthologies such as <The Apex Book of World SF II> and <Alias 6>.
His debut novel <The Waste Tide> (2013) was described as "When William Gibson writes The Windup Girl".
He now lives in Beijing and works for Google China.
Know more about his thoughts on SF:
<现实·超越·想象>(The Reality Surpasses the Imagination)
<我是怎样跟科幻发生关系的>(How do I have connection with SF)
<你写科幻小说的母题是什么？>(What's the Motif of Your Science Fiction)
Know more about his Info/Activities
百科: http://baike.baidu.com/view/1052782.htm (Wikipedia in China)
微博: http://Weibo.com/scifivan (Twitter in China)
知乎: http://www.zhihu.com/people/chenqiufan (Quora in China)
And after all,actually, Stanley Chan Is Fxxking Insane.