Xu Xi

PHOTO: Paul Hilton

Xu Xi (@xuxiwriter) is the author of fourteen books, most recently This Fish Is Fowl: Essays of Being (2019). An Indonesian-Chinese-American diehard transnational, she splits her life, unevenly, between the state of New York and the rest of the world.

Spring 2019

Hong Kong: A Recommended Reading List

TO CURATE A reading list of ten to fifteen Hong Kong books that will inspire the international reader of literature is no easy task. For one thing, ten to fifteen is an arbitrary ra...
September 2018

Insignificance: Hong Kong Stories by Xu Xi

Hong Kong. Signal 8 Press. 2018. 190 pages. In Insignificance, Xu Xi ambitiously claimed that she was doing a little bit of what Dream of the Red Chamber was doing—to create classic...