Can Xue, Author, Canxue, Author, Xue Can, Author Northwestern University Press $19 (173p) ISBN 978-0-8101-0831-8
Chinese Can Xue's first book to appear in English radically departs from the realism governing the fiction of her compatriots. ``Because of universal love,'' she declares, ``human beings can detach and sublimate themselves in the realm of art.'' The
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Can Xue, Author, Can Xue, Author, Ts'an-Hsueh, Author Northwestern University Press $17 (269p) ISBN 978-0-8101-0988-9
Partly to avoid condemnation by the Chinese government and partly in reaction to the social realism of Mao Zedong's regime, Can Xue (Dialogues in Paradise ) has fashioned two stubbornly obscure novellas about contemporary China that veil political...
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Can Xue, Author, Karen Gernant, Translator, Chen Zeping, Translator , trans. from the Mandarin by Karen Gernant and Chen Zaping. New Directions $14.95 (212p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1648-7
Can Xue (Dialogues in Paradise
) is a Chinese writer in her 50s whose pen name means "dirty snow that refuses to melt." In this enigmatic collection, she writes in the artless prose of fairy tales and employs a curious dreamlike logic in her
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Can Xue, Author, Karen Gernant, Translator, Chen Zeping, Translator , trans. from the Chinese by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping. Yale Univ. $25 (329p) ISBN 978-0-300-12227-5
The inhabitants of Five Spice Street gossip, spy and seduce one another in this lovely surrealist romp. At the center of the drama is Madame X, a mysterious figure who has a strange hold on her neighbors' imaginations. She could be anywhere...
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Can Xue, trans. from the Chinese by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping. Open Letter (Univ. of Nebraska, dist.), $13.95 trade paper (186p) ISBN 978-1-934824-37-5
The animals and plants that figure in Xue's latest are used not only as metaphor but also as omens and characters. "What led to this? Milk. That's right—milk," says the cat who narrates "An Affectionate Companion's Jottings." The flowers of "The...
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