Meet Hao Jingfang, Asia's 1st female Hugo Award Winner and her Folding Beijing

Hao Jingfang and Folding Beijing

Source: SBS Mandarin

Hao Jingfang, a business graduate from Qing Hua University, became the 1st female winner of Hugo Award with Folding Beijing. In the society imagined in the novella Folding Beijing, the citys residents are divided into three social classes who each live on a different physical surface of the city. Theyre also separated by time, and in each 48-hour cycle in this world, the 50 million underclass laborers are only allowed to be awake for eight hours at night.



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