About Lucia Luo Xu (aka Yin Guang)
May my pen be the sword,
and song the light.
Lucia Luo is an award-winning novelist, interested in fantastic writing about “Art Utopia”, as well as Hong Kong immigrant stories, and academic research of “Distributed Narrative”. An Odyssey and A Scroll of the Sky and Sea are her full-length novels published in Chinese. She is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of a si-fi book Nine Cities, Millions of Futures, and Co-Writer of China Science Fiction Development Yearbook 2021. Her literary efforts have been recognised by honours such as Chinese Internet Literature Newcomer Award of the Year, Young Poets of The 10th October Poetry Society, and Taiwan King Car Fantasy Fiction Prize.
As a cosmopolitan millennial, Lucia has learned to juggle multiple professional identities and responsibilities such as Executive Director of Hong Kong Writers Association, Executive Director of World Chinese Science Fiction Association(CSFA), Member of China Writers Association.
She is currently the Dean of Penglai SF Academy, which is devoted in the creative and academic explorations of immersive cultural entertainment and trans-media narratives. Her science fiction was adapted by artist Yongjian Su to mechanical installation art and articipated in the 8th The Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture and won Organizing Committee Award. Her band Slip wrote the theme song Cyber-Nocturne for China Science and Technology Museum. She enjoys the mobile lifestyle afforded to her via her work with literature.
From the land of fantasy to reality, she endeavor to expand the expression of literature across various fields in an attempt to convey the beauty of literature in multiple dimensions, acoustically and visually, to name a few, adding new vehicles and forms to art and literature in the age of technology. The seemingly fragmented concepts of classicism, modernity and future may well weave the starlight of thoughts sparkling throughout the millennium into a shining galaxy under the framework of literature.
My Literature Works: Fantasy World Fantasy World
Historical novel: An Odyssey
Cosmos Books Ltd.
2022 Hong Kong International Book Fair
In December 2019, the historical novel An Odyssey was published by Beijing United Publishing Company; in October 2021, the traditional version was launched in Cosmos Books Ltd., selected for the Hong Kong Arts Development Council's annual funding scheme, and received much attention at the 2020 Shanghai Book Fair and 2022 Hong Kong International Book Fair.
The book is based on the life experience of Wang Wei (a Chinese poet, musician, painter, and politician of the middle Tang dynasty), especially during the An-Shi Rebellion. Through the contrast of two main characters, Yun Qi (the prototype Wang Wei) and Kuyuan (the prototype Tao Yuanming), the book tells the story of a generation of literary figures who defended themselves and persevered in the dangerous situation of the officialdom and the chaotic world. With a unique perspective and grand writing style, the story unravels the historical mystery of why Wang Wei had to destroy his reputation and accept a fake post from An Lushan after the An Shi Rebellion. In addition to its unique historical perspective, the work also presents a modern-day perspective on the intricate and multi-faceted friendship circle of the literati and the powerful in the Tang Dynasty.
Music Fantasy Fiction: A Scroll of the Sky and the Sea
Hunan Literature Publishing House
In April 2021, the musical fantasy novel A Scroll of the Sky and Sea was highly recommended by Liu Cixin, Pan Haitian and Zhange Ni. The protagonist is a “bard”, a protector of music. Born a member of the romantic Mermaid (鲛人), visited the freeflying Harpies (羽人) in the celestial palace, and travelled through the human world filled with song. An Eastern Fantasy series forged in the aesthetics of classical mythology, extending from the mythological universe of The Classic of Mountains and Seas. An attempt to combine agile imagination and weighty history, to explore an area of academic interest with fantasy writing such as identity, gender and art.
The work uses the cross-cultural travels of the 'bard/singer of strings' as a metaphor for emotional change and the awakening of self-consciousness, and presents the romantic imagination of 'the sky and the sea', addressing the spiritual emptiness and lack of emotion in the midst of the epidemic.
Fantasy Novella: Floating Flame, Silent Time
Taiwan King Car Fantasy Fiction Prize
In 2016, Fantasy stories ‘Floating Flame, Silent Time’ has been recognised by Taiwan King Car Fantasy Fiction Prize.
Ming Pao Monthly: "Sci-Fi Special"
In July 2019, Yin Guang (Lucia) curated the "Science Fiction Special" of Ming Pao Monthly as a special edition of the Hong Kong Book Fair, and interviewed three Chinese science fiction masters, Ni Kuang, Liu Cixin and Han Song:
"I'm not writing science fiction!"——Interview with Ni Kuang
"The Sino-US dispute is a science-fiction dispute" ─ Interview with science fiction writer Han Song
Modern poems published in October
Beijing Literature and other literary magazines
In 2020, he was selected as a young poet for the 10th October Poetry Society, and was awarded the 2nd Love in Lijiang - China Tanabata Poetry Festival. <His poems, including "Paradox", "Pain" and "Traveller", have been published in October, Beijing Literature and other literary magazines.
Historical novel: An Odyssey
Beijing United Publishing Company
2020 Shanghai Book Fair
The novel was recommended by writers such as Yan Lianke, Liu Zhenyun, Li Er, Ge Liang and Stanley Chan, and was longlisted for the Blancpain Prize for Ideal Chinese Literature.
From January to August 2020, the book was presented at the Shanghai Book Fair, the Beijing Literary Season, Hangzhou Bookstore and Shenzhen Nanshan Library, with the theme "Another possibility of classical aesthetic intervention in modern life". The live broadcast of the event was watched by more than 1.2 million people.
A new generation of youth carries forward their national culture and shapes their own self-identity as they create works of classical aesthetics.
Music Fantasy Fiction: A Scroll of the Sky and the Sea
Hunan Literature Publishing House
The famous Chinese sci-fi author Han Song: this book combines fantasy and sci-fi, describing the journey of a young bard from the sea who meets intelligent creatures from different worlds.
Professor Yan Feng from Fudan University says that in the age of trans-media, A Scroll of the Sky and Sea is the crossover and fusion of literature, painting and music in an effort to break the barrier between different forms of culture. How do literature, art and music come into play? How can we best leverage the power of this fusion? Is it facing a transformation that results in the re-presentation in the form of converged media encompassing a range of media? Moreover, it related to a higher level of progression that is the state of transcendence and Anattā—— the true essence ultimately revealed in the pursuit of art, love and adventure is that it is the process that truly constitutes the objective.
Martial Novel: Magical Girl with Rabbit
Legends of Modern and Ancient: Martial Arts Edition
In 2018, the martial arts novel "Magical Girl with Rabbit" was published in Legends of Modern and Ancient: Martial Arts Edition, and won the second prize in the Xia World Creation Essay Contest and the 2nd Palm Reading Literature Contest .
Award-winning comment: This article combines the wonderful fantasy world with the life of the rivers and lakes, and the clear and tactful text adds a layer of magnificent color to the world of martial arts.
Nine Cities, Millions of Futures
In March 2020, Yin Guang (Lucia), together with renowned science fiction writer Liu Cixin, academician Meng Jianmin of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and science fiction scholar Wu Yan, co-edited a special book for the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Biennale and a collection of science fiction works, Nine Cities, Millions Futures, published by China Development Press.
The authors focus on people and architecture in the city, people and space in the city, and people and people in the city. Through the collision and superposition of dichotomous elements such as art and technology, modern and future, virtual and reality, known and unknown, they conceive and imagine the future city on many levels, offering a wonderful science fiction feast to the readers.
China Science Fiction Development Yearbook 2021 China Science and Technology Press
China Science Fiction Research Centre
In September 2021, Yin Guang (Lucia) was invited to attend the China Science Fiction Conference. At the "China Science Fiction Research Centre 2021 Results Conference", the "China Science Fiction Development Yearbook 2021" was released for the first time. The book has both academic and historical value. It reviews the development of science fiction in China in 2020, covering science fiction creation, publishing, film and television, games, peripheral products, Sino-foreign science fiction exchanges and science fiction education, as well as analysing the highlights and noteworthy new phenomena in the development, such as the section "Murder Mystery: A New Vehicle for the Science Fiction Industry" written by Yin Guang (Lucia).
My Literature Works: Metropolis Story
"Hong Kong in Imagination " science fiction column
Hong Kong Writer
In May 2022, Yin Guang (Lucia) co-authored a special issue of the Hong Kong Writer's "Hong Kong in Imagination " science fiction column on behalf of the Penglai SF Academy and the Hong Kong Writers' Association, and published "Keeping the Past Alive, Awakening the Future——Overview of Hong Kong in Imagination".
Hong Kong, as a sample of collective imaginaries and imaginary collectives, the dialogue of the past and future is worth noted. The event invited important writers such as Ni Kuang, Han Song, Stanley Chan, Tsai Chun, Chen Lvfan, Jiang Bo, Xinghe, Sanfeng, Gu Bei and Duan Zizhi.
The Memory Patient
Hong Kong Literature，Hong Kong Writers
August 2019, published in the 'Post-90s' column of Hong Kong Literature, Issue 416.
April 2020, reprinted in the 'World Talk' column of Hong Kong Writers, Vol. 3.
The novella "Memory Puzzle of Immigrants in Hong Kong", "Hong Kong Twenty Years"
Shanxi Literature
In February 2019, it was published in the "Walking" column of the second issue of Shanxi Literature.
This article utilises non-linear story telling to narrate the story of protagonist Zong Be; as he wanders adrift in his fragmented memories of Hong Kong's past and present.
"Online literature walks in the middle of two paths"
Hong Kong 01 Weekly
Yin Guang (Lucia), a post-90s Hong Kong-based writer, won the 2019 Chinese Internet Literature Newcomer Award of the Year，telling the story of how "Online literature walks in the middle of two paths".
the series "Twenty Years of Chinese Online Literature: From Leisure Reading to Cultural Export" in issue 245 of Hong Kong 01 Weekly (21 December 2020).
Fictions written by Chinese language students from the Renmin University of China and other institutions, edited by the renowned writer Yan Lianke, are included in a total of 18 pieces.
Lucia's novel Red and White, which tells a story through the autobiographical accounts of several people, and starts off very uneventfully until the end, with a surprising feeling about the final outcome.
Novel “Memory Puzzle of Immigrants in Hong Kong”
Sino United Publishi
This novel is a collection of short stories concerning the heart of many "Gang-pau"s, mainland Chinese drifting in Hong Kong, searching for their next step in life. As tales of the city unfold, they reveals the connection between past and present, and offer an intimate glance into the souls of many millennial overseas drifters.
It will be published by the Sino United Publishing and selected as one of the "Shenzhen Key Literary Works Support Projects". The University of Oxford and the University of London held a forum on "Memory of Immigrants in Hong Kong: A Science Fiction Puzzle of Greater Bay Area Literature".
Making a Heart
SHAN HUA, Nine Cities, Millions of Futures, SOCIETAL COSMOS: Scifiathon Award Stories
The "Memory of Immigrants in Hong Kong" series, a science fiction setting, was published in the pioneering literary journal SHAN HUA. In the science fiction collection Nine Cities, Millions of Futures (China Development Press), and SOCIETAL COSMOS: Scifiathon Award Stories (China Academy of Fine Arts Press).
Literary Seminar University of Sheffield, UK
Interdisciplinary Conference at The University of Sheffield
(Re)defining the Intersection: Hong Kong Textuality
25th January 2019, The University of Sheffield, Humanities Research Institute。
Report the novel "Memory of Immigrants in Hong Kong", and share the report in the form of speeches, recitations of soundtracks, and song singing.
"True Water and Fire - A Writer's Pop Music Biography"
Baihua Literary and Art Press
In 2022, Yin Guang (Lucia) co-authored "True Water and Fire - A Writer's Pop Music Biography", which was published by Baihua Literary and Art Press, and was the lead book in the series "Chinese Pop Music Workshop".
《SOCIETAL COSMOS：Scifiathon Award Stories》China Academy of Art Press
Science fiction is the imagination of future society. The lack of imagination is the reason why human society has bowed to the power of technology and submitted to a future determined by it. To revive the passion for science fiction in the humanities is to revive the ability to socialise technology: to multiply history and enrich culture.
This book contains 8 fantasy novels, including Lucia`s Emotion Alchemist.