SUSTech's "Science and Technology + Humanities" Collision Fruit "Cloud Body" Screenplay Won the "People's Literature Award"

On April 19, 2025, the 2024 People's Literature Award Ceremony was held in Sichuan. Chen Yuehong, Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences of SUSTech, Wu Yan, Director of the Research Center for Science and Imagination, and Yin Di, Associate Professor of Drama, Film and Television School of Shenzhen University, co-wrote Shenzhen's first original science fiction philosophical drama "Cloud Body" and won the 2024 "People's Literature Award" (Special Stylistic Award).

Award ceremony

Chen Yuehong pointed out in his award-winning speech that "Cloud Body" not only describes artificial intelligence, but also pays attention to the deep meaning of the ideas behind this topic. To win this award, we must thank Shenzhen for its high-tech development, and also thank SUSTech for its vision of building a science, technology, humanities and new arts department, as well as the persistent efforts of colleagues. The team spent several years immersing themselves in the experience and creation. At the arrival of the AI model, the script also broke through and achieved eight consecutive popular stage performances in Shenzhen and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

Wu Yan said that "Cloud Body" deeply describes and thinks about the theme of artificial intelligence, catching up with the pulse of the times. It is not just a script, but a real work. Shenzhen literature should choose a new, original track of its own, and have the ability to contribute to the cutting-edge literary field. The award of "Cloud Body" is the glory of Shenzhen. Yin Di said that it is inevitable that "Cloud Body" was born in Shenzhen. Shenzhen's rapidly changing scientific and technological environment and sky-high science fiction imagination are the starting point of this work.

The jury considered that the theme of the play, which is based on the relationship between carbon-based people and silicon-based people, is profound. The contradictory setting is progressive from the ethics of science and technology to the exploration of human nature. The open ending presents the technological and ethical dilemmas of the times.

The script for "Cloud Body" was created at the end of 2022 and officially performed in March 2023. At the time of the performance, it was difficult to get a vote, with good reviews and high popularity, which attracted the attention and coverage of dozens of domestic mainstream media. This is the product of SUSTech's efforts to build a distinctive humanities and social sciences background, and it is also one of the focus points of SUSTech's efforts to build a "science, popularization and science fiction" cultural brand matrix.

"Cloud Body" is the first science fiction philosophical drama being created by the newly established Science Fiction Creation Center of the School of Humanities of SUSTech. The second "Quantum Ghost" has been formed and is expected to achieve the first official stage performance at the end of 2025. The team said that they are confident that under the rich soil of the integration and development of science and technology and humanities in Shenzhen and the Greater Bay Area, they will create more original sci-fi works and paint more bright colors for Shenzhen, the science fiction capital.

The People's Literature Prize is one of the highest awards in the field of literature in China. Organized by People's Literature magazine, it is selected once a year. It mainly rewards writers who have outstanding performance in novels, poetry, prose, non-fiction and other literary fields.

Transferred from: SUSTech News Network

Correspondent: Yu Bei

Editor: Zhou Yilin