Christopher Payne has co-translated award-winning novels such as Decoded and In the Dark by Mai Jia, as well as Jiang Zilong’s magnum opus, Empires of Dust, translated in collaboration with Olivia Milburn. Christopher holds a PhD in Chinese literature from SOAS at the University of London, and he has been teaching for over a decade. In 2020 he took up a position at the University of Toronto, where he has continued to champion Chinese literature in the English-speaking world.