Xia Jia
| Xia Jia 夏笳 (Wang Yao 王瑶) |
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| Born | June 1984 Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China |
| Citizenship | China |
| Education | PhD in Comparative Literature and World Literature, Peking University |
| Occupation | Science Fiction Writer, University Lecturer |
| Notable work | The Demon-Enslaving Flask; A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight; Spring Festival: Happiness, Anger, Love, Sorrow, Joy. |
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| Simplified Chinese | 王瑶 | ||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 王瑤 | ||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 夏笳 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 夏笳 | ||||||
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| Hanyu Pinyin | wáng yáo |
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| Hanyu Pinyin | xià jiā |
Wang Yao (Chinese: 王瑶; pinyin: Wáng Yáo), born June 1984, known by the pen name Xia Jia (Chinese: 夏笳; pinyin: Xià Jiā), is a Chinese science-fiction and fantasy writer. After receiving her Ph.D. in comparative literature and world literature at Department of Chinese, Peking University in 2014, she is currently a lecturer of Chinese literature at Xi'an Jiaotong University.
Xia Jia's short fiction works have won five Galaxy Awards for Chinese Science Fiction, six Nebula Awards for Science Fiction and Fantasy in Chinese. One of her short stories received honorable mention for 2013 Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Awards. Her stories have been published in Nature, Clarkesworld, Year's Best SF, SF Magazine as well as influential Chinese Sci-Fi magazine Science Fiction World. Besides those written in Chinese and English, her works have been translated into Czech, Italian, Japanese and Polish.
Xia Jia entered School of Physics, Peking University in 2002. As an undergraduate, Xia Jia majored in Atmospheric Sciences. She then entered the Film Studies Program at the Communication University of China, where she completed her Master’s thesis: "A Study on Female Figures in Science Fiction Films". Recently, she obtained a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and World Literature at Peking University, with "Chinese Science Fiction and Its Cultural Politics Since 1990" as the topic of her dissertation. She now teaches at School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Xi’an Jiaotong University.
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