The 81st World Science Fiction Convention (WorldCon) was held in the southwestern Chinese city of Chengdu. Chinese writer Hai Ya won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette for his “The Space-Time Painter”. He became the third Chinese winner of the Hugo Award, following Liu Cixin and Hao Jingfang.
“The Space-Time Painter” got the inspiration from the life experience of the talented Chinese painter Wang Ximeng, who created the painting “One Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains”. “I watched a program named ‘National Treasure Archive’ and the information of the painter of ‘One Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains’ was introduced, which interested me,” Hai said, adding that the painter was a gifted young man but was never seen again in history, which could be explored with science-fiction.
According to the life of Wang, Hai created a painter named Zhao Ximeng, a painter that painted for the emperor more than 1,000 years ago. After much misery (悲惨) and suffering, Zhao gave up his physical body and went into a space where a modern policeman got into his memory. In this story, Hai did his best to balance the relationship between story, characters and history, hoping to bring readers a good work.
Hai is also a financial (金融的) worker. “I write while doing my job, so I have very little time to write every day,” he said. “But I think as long as I love it and am willing to put efforts in it, I will see hopes and the dawn.”
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