Jia Qin, researcher at The Centre for Chinese Visual Studies of China Academy of Art, and tutor of paleography at the Prince’s Foundation School of Traditional Arts China Centre (PSTA).

He was born in Yan’an in 1980, and began his eclectic writing career in  in 2000, publishing ‘Tiger Change: Preparation for a Dictionary’and ‘Jiuyi Collection’. He is editor in chief of Muduo Library, the first systematic introduction of Oulipo literature in Chinese.