In 1961, Chiang opened San Francisco's The Mandarin, a high-end Chinese restaurant that served authentic fare. Today, her DNA is all over American Chinese food, from P.F. Chang's to Panda Express.

Cynthia Chiang is searching for signs of the universe's first light. The cosmologist builds her own equipment, and deploys it to the edges of the Earth, to get a hint of how the cosmos came to be.

Science fiction author Ted Chiang wrote the short story that became the movie "Arrival." He talks with host Scott Detrow. If, like me, you are a fan of the science fiction author Ted Chiang, you ...

Ted Chiang was recently awarded the PEN/Faulkner Foundation's prize for short story excellence. He sat down with NPR to talk about AI, making art and grappling with big ideas.

In Chiang’s view, most depictions of sci-fi AI fall short even by science-fiction standards. “A lot of stories imagine something which is a product like a robot that comes in a box, and you ...

Chiang, who ran the Mandarin from 1961 to 1991 before selling it, was credited by food magazine Saveur in 2000 with "nothing less than introducing regional Chinese cooking to America.". The ...

Cecilia Chiang at her home in San Francisco in 2019. As a daughter of wealth, she fled the Japanese during World War II, traveling nearly 700 miles on foot, before arriving in San Francisco.

Tsuen-hsuin (T.H.) Tsien, Curator Emeritus of the East Asian Collection of the Joseph Regenstein Library and Professor Emeritus of Far Eastern Languages and Tsuen-hsuin Tsien Obituary - Chicago ...

The Author Behind ‘Arrival’ Doesn’t Fear AI. ‘Look at How We Treat Animals.’ The award-winning author and Ezra Klein discuss A.I. suffering, free will, Superman’s failures and more.