Born 1965 in Chongqing, Han works as a journalist for the state news agency Xinhua.

[1] His first short story collection, Gravestone of the Universe (宇宙墓碑) was published in 1981 in the Taiwanese journal Huanxiang.

It waited ten years for publication in the People's Republic of China because publishers found its tone too dark.

[3] According to the China Daily, Han describes himself as a "staunch nationalist at heart", and his work is critical of China's desire to Westernize as fast as possible: He believes that "fast-track development does not agree with core Asian values", and that adoption of the "alien entities" of science, technology and modernization by the Chinese will turn them into monsters.

[4] According to the Los Angeles Times, "if the author is critical of a cocky America, he is also unafraid to ruthlessly satirize an overreaching China."