Zhang Xiguo

Zhang Xiguo (Chinese: 張系國; Pinyin: Zhāng Xīgūo), known in English as Shi-kuo Chang, is an internationally renowned computer scientist and writer famous for his sci-fi writing. Zhang was born in Chongqing in 1944 and grew up in Taiwan. After graduating from National Taiwan University, he first came to the United States in 1966 as a student at University of California, Berkeley, in Computer Science. He teaches Computer Science at the University of Pittsburgh.

Well Known Works

ci-Fi Short Stories Collection

*Nebula Suite
*Nocturne
*Golden Silk Dress
*Glass World

ci-Fi Novels

*Five Jade Plates
*Flying General In Dragon City
*Feather One

Other Novels

*Chess King（Adapted to Movie in 1988）
*The Authorized Biography of Pastor Pi（Chang's first published novel)
*Anger of Yesterday
*Water of Yellow River
*Spy Catcher（Working with Ping Lu）
* * Chang Hsi-kuo, "The City Trilogy", New York, Columbia University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-231-12852-5

External links

Dr. Chang's University of Pittsburgh site: [http://www2.cs.pitt.edu/~chang/index2.html]

For a listing of his publications, see [http://www2.cs.pitt.edu/~chang/novels.html]