Shi-Kuo Chang[1][2] (Chinese: 張系國; pinyin: Zhāng Xìgūo; Wade–Giles: Chang1 Hsi4-kuo1) is a Taiwanese-American computer scientist and writer best known for his science fiction novels and short stories.
After completing an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering at National Taiwan University, Chang arrived in the United States in 1966 as a graduate student.
This was followed by the short story collection Nebula Suite (星雲組曲) in 1980, with the first volume of his acclaimed City Trilogy, The Five Jade Disks (五玉蝶), appearing in 1983.
In 1983, "Red Boy" was included in The Unbroken Chain : An Anthology of Taiwan Fiction since 1926 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press), edited by Joseph S. M. Lau.
Composed of overseas students from the Republic of China, this movement emerged in opposition to the Okinawa Reversion Agreement, which was ratified in the U.S. Senate in 1971, ceding the administration of the disputed Senkaku Islands to Japan.