Han Han was born in Shanghai. Not only is he a bestselling author, magazine editor, and blogger, but he is also a race car driver. In recent years, he has won many championships in top racing events, including the China Rally Championship and the China Touring Car Championship. In 2010, he was named GQ Person of the Year and included on Time magazine's World's Most Influential People list.

In 2000, Han published his novel Triple Gate, which has sold over two million copies in China. Five Year Anthology of Han Han, published in March 2004, has been translated into French, Korean, Singaporean, Taiwanese, and Japanese. A collection of essays, This Generation: Dispatches from China's Most Popular Literary Star (and Race Car Driver), was published in English in 2012.