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An extract from Chen Qiufan's book 'Waste Tide'
Published in 2013, the novel tackles the topic of e-waste in the Guangdong province of China. The author was one of The World Economic Forum's cultural leaders at the Annual Meeting of Ne...
Chen Qiufan
Formerly with Google China. Founding Member, Noitom, a virtual reality start-up in Beijing. Author of science fiction. Characters often contend with a spiritual or emotional vacuum and are as much empowered by technology as they are left wanting more from society. Proponent of a kind of sci-fi realism, with writing that contains few obvious technological or fantastical elements but which opts instead to explore a character’s emotional world. Has recently been involved with the development of a TV series called “Eros”, set to run in 2019.
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