Can Xue [pen name of Deng Xiaohua] 1953-

She was born in Changsha, Hunan and still lives there. She first began writing in 1983, and her stories have appeared in various literary magazines in mainland China as well as in Hong Kong and Taiwan. She is the author of Dialogues in Paradise.

Works available in English:

  • Old Floating Cloud: Two Novellas (Ronald R. Janssen and Zhang Jian).
       Evanston, III.: Northwestern University Press, 1991.
  • Dialogues in Paradise (Ronald R. Janssen and Zhang Jian). Evanston, Ill.:
       Northwestern University Press, 1989.
  • The Embroidered Shoes (Ronald R. Janssen and Zhang Jian). New York: Henry
       Holt, 1997.

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