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Ted Chiang was born in 1967 to a [[Taiwanese American]] family in [[Port Jefferson, New York]].[{{cite web |url = http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Ted_Chiang |title = Ted Chiang | type = Summary Bibliography |work = Internet Speculative Fiction Database |access-date = October 4, 2012}}] His [[Chinese name]] is '''Chiang Feng-nan''' ({{Lang-zh|p=Jiāng Fēngnán|t=姜峯楠}}).[{{Cite web |last=Klein |first=Ezra |author-link=Ezra Klein |date=2023-03-03 |title=人工智能真正的恐怖之处 |trans-title=The Imminent Danger of A.I. Is One We’re Not Talking About |url=https://cn.nytimes.com/opinion/20230301/microsoft-bing-sydney-artificial-intelligence/ |access-date=2025-02-14 |website=[[The New York Times]] |language=zh-cmn-hans}} Translated from [https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/26/opinion/microsoft-bing-sydney-artificial-intelligence.html The Imminent Danger of A.I. Is One We’re Not Talking About].] Both of his parents are Taiwanese ''[[waishengren]]'' who were born in [[mainland China]] and migrated to Taiwan with their families during the [[retreat of the government of the Republic of China to Taiwan]] before immigrating to the United States.[{{cite magazine |url= http://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/ted-chiangs-soulful-science-fiction |title= Ted Chiang's Soulful Science Fiction |last=Rothman |first= Joshua |magazine= [[The New Yorker]] |date= January 5, 2017 |access-date= January 7, 2017}}] His father, Fu-pen Chiang, is a distinguished professor of mechanical engineering at [[Stony Brook University]].[{{Cite journal| url= https://post45.org/2014/11/melancholy-transcendence-ted-chiang-and-asian-american-postracial-form/|title = Melancholy Transcendence: Ted Chiang and Asian American Postracial Form|journal = Post45 |date = November 5, 2014|last1 = Fan|first1 = Christopher T.}}] His mother ({{Abbr|d.|Died}} 2019) was a librarian.[{{Cite news |last1=Yeh |first1=James |last2=Millionaire |first2=Tony |date=2019-12-02 |title=An Interview with Ted Chiang |url=https://www.thebeliever.net/an-interview-with-ted-chiang/ |access-date=2023-05-26 |website=[[The Believer (magazine)|The Believer]] |language=en-US |issue=128}}] Chiang also has a sister who is a physician. |
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Ted Chiang was born in 1967 to a [[Taiwanese American]] family in [[Port Jefferson, New York]].[{{cite web |url = http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Ted_Chiang |title = Ted Chiang | type = Summary Bibliography |work = Internet Speculative Fiction Database |access-date = October 4, 2012}}] His [[Chinese name]] is '''Chiang Feng-nan''' ({{Lang-zh|p=Jiāng Fēngnán|t=姜峯楠}}).[{{Cite web |last=Klein |first=Ezra |author-link=Ezra Klein |date=2023-03-03 |title=人工智能真正的恐怖之处 |trans-title=The Imminent Danger of A.I. Is One We’re Not Talking About |url=https://cn.nytimes.com/opinion/20230301/microsoft-bing-sydney-artificial-intelligence/ |access-date=2025-02-14 |website=[[The New York Times]] |language=zh-cmn-hans}} Translated from [https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/26/opinion/microsoft-bing-sydney-artificial-intelligence.html The Imminent Danger of A.I. Is One We’re Not Talking About].] Both of his parents are Taiwanese ''[[waishengren]]'' who were born in [[mainland China]] and migrated to Taiwan with their families during the [[retreat of the government of the Republic of China to Taiwan|Great Retreat]] before immigrating to the United States.[{{cite magazine |url= http://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/ted-chiangs-soulful-science-fiction |title= Ted Chiang's Soulful Science Fiction |last=Rothman |first= Joshua |magazine= [[The New Yorker]] |date= January 5, 2017 |access-date= January 7, 2017}}] His father, Fu-pen Chiang, is a distinguished professor of mechanical engineering at [[Stony Brook University]].[{{Cite journal| url= https://post45.org/2014/11/melancholy-transcendence-ted-chiang-and-asian-american-postracial-form/|title = Melancholy Transcendence: Ted Chiang and Asian American Postracial Form|journal = Post45 |date = November 5, 2014|last1 = Fan|first1 = Christopher T.}}] His mother ({{Abbr|d.|Died}} 2019) was a librarian.[{{Cite news |last1=Yeh |first1=James |last2=Millionaire |first2=Tony |date=2019-12-02 |title=An Interview with Ted Chiang |url=https://www.thebeliever.net/an-interview-with-ted-chiang/ |access-date=2023-05-26 |website=[[The Believer (magazine)|The Believer]] |language=en-US |issue=128}}] Chiang also has a sister who is a physician. |
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Chiang grew up on [[Long Island]] and, at age 15, began submitting [[science fiction]] stories to magazines.[{{Cite web |last=Clark |first=Taylor |date=2015-01-04 |title=The Perfectionist |url=https://story.californiasunday.com/ted-chiang-scifi-perfectionist/ |access-date=2025-02-14 |website=[[The California Sunday Magazine]] |language=en}}] He later recalled, "When I was a kid, my intention was to become a physicist. That was a perfectly respectable career choice for the son of an engineer. I figured I would be a fiction writer on the side, and that, I think, is perfectly acceptable to Asian parents".[{{Cite web |date=2002 |title=Ted Chiang interviewed - infinity plus non-fiction |url=http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/inttchiang.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221201225629/http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/inttchiang.htm |archive-date=2022-12-01 |access-date=2023-05-26 |website=[[Infinity Plus]]}}][{{Cite web |last=Smith |first=Andy |date=2020 |title=Alien Worlds: A new book of short stories from award-winning author Ted Chiang '89 |url=https://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/articles/2020-01-03/alien-worlds |access-date=2023-05-26 |website=[[Brown Alumni Magazine]] |language=en}}] As an undergraduate, Chiang continued to write sci-fi stories, though they were ultimately unpublished. |
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Chiang grew up on [[Long Island]] and, at age 15, began submitting [[science fiction]] stories to magazines.[{{Cite web |last=Clark |first=Taylor |date=2015-01-04 |title=The Perfectionist |url=https://story.californiasunday.com/ted-chiang-scifi-perfectionist/ |access-date=2025-02-14 |website=[[The California Sunday Magazine]] |language=en}}] He later recalled, "When I was a kid, my intention was to become a physicist. That was a perfectly respectable career choice for the son of an engineer. I figured I would be a fiction writer on the side, and that, I think, is perfectly acceptable to Asian parents".[{{Cite web |date=2002 |title=Ted Chiang interviewed - infinity plus non-fiction |url=http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/inttchiang.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221201225629/http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/inttchiang.htm |archive-date=2022-12-01 |access-date=2023-05-26 |website=[[Infinity Plus]]}}][{{Cite web |last=Smith |first=Andy |date=2020 |title=Alien Worlds: A new book of short stories from award-winning author Ted Chiang '89 |url=https://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/articles/2020-01-03/alien-worlds |access-date=2023-05-26 |website=[[Brown Alumni Magazine]] |language=en}}] As an undergraduate, Chiang continued to write sci-fi stories, though they were ultimately unpublished. |
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