Can Xue

Can Xue (b. 1953) is a Chinese writer and literary critic. She is the author of numerous novels, volumes of literary criticism, and short works of fiction. She currently lives in Beijing.

Purple Perilla by Can Xue

January 2022
Can Xue

New York. Common Era. 2020. 148 pages. CAN XUE’S Purple Perilla includes three short stories that immerse readers in a world where reality and absurdity collide. In “An Affai...
Frontier by Can Xue

May 2017
Can Xue

Rochester, New York. Open Letter. 2017. 470 pages. Frontier, first published in China in 2008, is Can Xue’s follow-up to her novel The Last Lover, winner of the 2015 Best Translated...
Vertical Motion by Can Xue

March 2012
Can Xue

Karen Gernant & Chen Zeping, tr. Rochester, New York. Open Letter. 2011. ISBN 9781934824375 In just a few short years, Open Letter Books, based out of the University of Rochester, has quite impre...