Fei Dao
Jia Liyuan, commonly known by the pseudonym Fei Dao, is a Chinese science fiction and fantasy writer, as well as a professor for literature at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
After first studying engineering at the Faculty for Environment of the Beijing Normal University, Fei Dao switched to the Faculty of Liberal Arts of the Beijing Normal University from September 2007 until July 2010 and gained a Master in literature. From September 2010 to July 2015, he further studied at the Institute of the Chinese Language at the Faculty of Humanities at the Tsinghua University in Beijing and gained a doctorate in literature. Afterward he returned to the Beijing Normal University to research and later returned to the Tsinghua University in Beijing to lecture. In 2017, he offered a course about writing science fiction.
Fei Dao began publishing science fiction and fantasy in 2003. His style is said to resemble Italo Calvino, and he is part of the World Culture of Authors founded by Guo Jingming.