Chen Chenchung lives in Quanzhou, Fujian, the province where he was born. Submarines in the Night is his first published book. The collection brings together stories originally published online to great fanfare; it earned the author the 2021 Blancpain-Imaginist Literary Prize and the first PAGEONE Literary Award, and was the highest-rated work of fiction of 2020 on the Douban website. Chuncheng continues to work at his local botanical garden.