About

Duan Xinqi

Duan Xinqi, a freelance translator from Beijing, is currently an undergraduate student majoring in Network and New Media at Nankai University, China, and has participated in an exchange program in Hong Kong. Her principal Chinese-to-English translations from include Behold the Man by Baoshu and We by Qi Ta. Versatile and passionate about music, she has been learning piano, violin, and guitar from a young age; her paintings have been exhibited at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in China; and her writings can be found in the Hong Kong Baptist University’s school magazine, the Beijing “Modernsky Youth” platform, and other publications.

Works by Duan Xinqi

The Nine-tailed Fox and Humanity’s Voyage

The nine-tailed fox Zhao Feilian wakes on humanity’s generational spaceship twenty thousand years after it was sealed. In order to return to its home in Qingqiu, it would have to fulfil the wishes of humans. However, the current generation no longer have dreams or desires, willingly spending their lives on the ship. Follow Zhao Feilian on its attempt to spark humanity’s urge to find a new home, so that it too, can go home.