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Xu Xing is a Chinese book author about whom little public information is available. The library currently holds two of his works, the representative titles Handover of a Home (Jiaofang) and Frontline Humanity (Yixian Renjian), both commonly classified as social fiction. Judging from these two works, Xu Xing draws his material from real life and focuses on how ordinary people fare and make choices in concrete circumstances. His writing tends toward realism, and he is good at approaching social issues through everyday scenes. The title Handover of a Home points to the delivery of housing, a practical stage closely tied to countless households, and readily evokes the complex relationships among home buying, housing and family life. Frontline Humanity, by contrast, directs its gaze to a broader social setting and carries a sense of staying close to the grassroots and recording the ways of the world. Overall, Xu Xing's work shows a sustained attention to social reality, presenting ordinary people's life experience in the form of fiction, in a plain style that values detail and the authenticity of his characters' situations. Because public information is limited, his life, native place and writing career cannot yet be supplemented.