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Can Xue

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May 30, 1953

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残雪

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.

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	Frontier by Can Xue, Karen Gernant (Translator), Zeping Chen (Translator) 3.56 avg rating — 295 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vertical Motion by Can Xue, Karen Gernant (Translator), Zeping Chen (Translator) 3.63 avg rating — 234 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Love in the New Millennium by Can Xue, Eileen Myles (Foreword), Annelise Finegan Wasmoen (Translator) 3.17 avg rating — 265 ratings — published 2013 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dialogues in Paradise by Can Xue, Ronald R. Janssen (Translator), Jian Zhang (Translator) 4.18 avg rating — 116 ratings — published 1988 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Five Spice Street by Can Xue, Karen Gernant (Translator), Zeping Chen (Translator) 3.29 avg rating — 143 ratings — published 1988 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Lover by Can Xue, Annelise Finegan Wasmoen 3.32 avg rating — 126 ratings — published 2005 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Live in the Slums: Stories by Can Xue (Translator), Karen Gernant (Translator), Zeping Chen (Translator) 3.29 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blue Light in the Sky & Other Stories by Can Xue, Karen Gernant (Translator), Zeping Chen (Translator) 3.67 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Embroidered Shoes by Can Xue, Ronald R. Janssen (Translator), Jian Zhang (Translator) 3.44 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Old Floating Cloud: Two Novellas by Can Xue, Ronald R. Janssen (Translator), Jian Zhang (Translator) 3.81 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“To show my revulsion, I jumped on the tea table several times and pretended it was an accident when I knocked the phone off the hook so that there couldn’t be any incoming calls.”
― Can Xue, Vertical Motion

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“The thing I love watching most is the swirling cotton candy. The contraption for making it is like a flat-bottomed pan. One puts sugar in it, turns the crank, and after a while, a large shimmering ball emerges; it’s like cotton—and like silk, too. Indeed, there’s nothing lovelier.”
― Can Xue, Vertical Motion

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“As I drank my coffee, I listened attentively, but I heard nothing. I thought, maybe this is because there’s too much noise in my world.”
― Can Xue

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January 2021 Monthly Read Poll: East Asian Authors

The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder

8 votes, 34.8%

Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation translated by Ken Liu

3 votes, 13.0%

Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation translated by Ken Liu

3 votes, 13.0%

Waste Tide by Chen Qiufan, translated by Ken Liu

3 votes, 13.0%

Frontier by Can Xue, translated by Karen Gernant & Zeping Chen

3 votes, 13.0%

The Stories of Ibis by Hiroshi Yamamoto, translated Takami Nieda

3 votes, 13.0%

23 total votes

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