Can Xue (Chinese: 残雪; pinyin: Cán Xuĕ), née Deng Xiaohua (Chinese: 邓小华), is a Chinese avant-garde fiction writer, literary critic, and tailor. She was born May 30, 1953, in Changsha, Hunan, China. Her family was severely persecuted following her father being labeled an ultra-rightist in the Anti-rightist Movement of 1957. Her writing, which consists mostly of short fiction, breaks with the realism of earlier modern Chinese writers. She has also written novels, novellas, and literary criticisms of the work of Dante, Jorge Luis Borges, and Franz Kafka. Some of her fiction has been translated and published in English.
Books in order of publication:
Breakout Performance – 1990
Five Spice Street – 2002
Trivial Records of Single Women – 2004
The Last Lover – 2005
Frontier – 2008
Miss Lu Fangshi – 2011
Love in the New Millennium – 2013
The Gift of the Dark Earth Mother (Part 1) – 2015
The Gift of the Dark Earth Mother (Part 2) – 2017
Barefoot Doctor – 2019
Water Village – 2021
The Enchanting Lives of Others – 2022
Mother River – 2025
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