Du Hong

Du Hong (Chinese: 杜虹) (c. 1954 – legal death May 30, 2015) is the first Chinese person cryopreserved by the Alcor Life Extension Foundation and possibly the first cryopreserved Chinese person in the world.

Du Hong was born in Chongqing, China and became well-known as a writer of books for children and as an editor of science fiction. Some of the books she edited was a science fiction trilogy, "The Three-Body Problem", written by Liu Cixin.

She legally died from pancreatic cancer at the age of 61 in Beijing, China. She was transported to the United States and neuropreserved, becoming Alcor's 138th patient.