Citations:all the while


 * 2021, Yi-Ling Liu, Sci-Fi Writer or Prophet? The Hyperreal Life of Chen Qiufan, Wired.com (9 March 2021);
 * After completing a dual degree in Chinese literature and film arts and enduring a brief and dispiriting stint in real estate, he left to work in the tech industry, first in advertising at Baidu, then in marketing at Google, all the while writing science fiction on the side.