Liu Ran

Liu Ran was born in 1988 in Tai'an, Shandong, and was the top scorer in the science track of the Shandong province college entrance examination in 2006. She earned a bachelor's and a master's degree in sociology from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, then pursued a doctorate in sociology at the University of Pennsylvania under Randall Collins, and later served as an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Combining a background in sociological research with an interest in programming practice, her works in the library span science fiction, foreign literature and programming design. Her representative translations include Flowers for Algernon and The Microverse God, both selections from world-class science fiction masters, and she is also the author of Core Technologies and Practices of Code Management. Her major translations include The Unwinding, The Credential Society, Violence: A Micro-sociological Theory and Modernity at Large. Her translations balance accuracy in academic concepts with readability in literary expression, and she has worked in both science fiction and social science translation.