Award News from China

China’s premier science fiction awards, the Xingyuns, have been announced at a ceremony in Chengdu. They have an interesting set of award categories, including “Best Achievement”. This was won, unsurprisingly, by Liu Cixin for becoming the first Chinese writer to win a Hugo Award. However, there are other categories too. As this China Daily report notes, this year for the first time there was a Xingyun for Best Screenplay. It was won by Of Cloud and Mist, written by Wang Kanyu and Wu Shuang. That may mean nothing to you, but if I were to say Regina Wang and Anna Wu a few light bulbs might come on. Regina in particular has been very active in traveling to Western conventions, including Finnish events and last year’s Worldcon in London. I’m absolutely delighted for her.