About the author
Xiao Bai is a Chinese author active in fiction and the personal essay, though public information about him is limited: his biography, nationality, and dates of birth and death are not confirmed. Judging from the four works held in the collection, he writes both novels and prose, with subjects spanning war and military life as well as social fiction. His representative works Blockade and Concession are set against modern urban and concession spaces and combine historical suspense with everyday narrative, while The Lustful Hamlet and Performance and Peeping lean toward the essay, offering cultural observations on texts and on the act of watching. Overall, Xiao Bai's writing balances storytelling with reflection, drawing meaning from historical detail and ordinary scenes in prose that is composed and quietly erudite.
Written (13)
Rating 4.2★ Blockade 小白 Henan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2022 A lie that sounds full of holes is in fact an impeccable assassination! During the isolated island period, a bomb exploded in an apartment in the Shan… Rating 4.0★ The Concession 小白 Henan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2022 In 1931 Shanghai's foreign concessions, four forces stir beneath the calm surface: speculators, secret service agents, underground organizations, and … Rating 3.6★ Blockade 小白 CITIC Press · 2017 Blockade is a collection of novellas by the Shanghai writer Xiao Bai. The title novella was first published in Shanghai Literature, No. 8, 2016, and w… Blockade 小白 CITIC Press · 2017 Blockade is a collection of novellas by the Shanghai writer Xiao Bai, published in April 2017 by CITIC Press (CITIC Publishing Group), containing the … Rating 4.0★ The Lustful Hamlet 小白 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2016 Hamlet in Lust is the debut essay collection that made Xiao Bai's name. Critics have summed it up as "cultural wine poured into the bottle of the sexe… Rating 3.6★ Performance and Voyeurism 小白 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2016 This collection of essays, Bai Xiao's latest, carries on the approach of his previous bestselling essay collection The Lustful Hamlet—"cultural wine p… The Bad Student of Youth 小白 Fengshen Reading Network · 2015 The story revolves around Yang Hao, a bad student in his second year of high school. On a summer afternoon, he sneaks out of class over the wall and a… Rating 4.0★ Performance and Voyeurism 小白 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2012 Performance and Voyeurism is Shanghai writer Bai Xiao's second collection of essays, following his acclaimed Lustful Hamlet. It gathers columns he pub… Peerless Frenzied Sovereign 小白 Qidian A typical transmigration cultivation power fantasy with fast pacing and dense level-up payoffs; the academy rivalry and secret-realm treasure-hunting … The Strongest Live-In Son-in-Law 小白 Wandu Novels This is a typical live-in son-in-law comeback power fantasy: opening humiliation, a fortuitous inheritance, defending his mother at home, resolving th… Step by Step into Marriage: Ex-Wife, the Divorce Is Invalid 小白 Qidian A typical wealthy-family angst-and-comeback story. The opening packs in conflicts—the mistress showing up, a coldly abusive marriage, a stepmother fig… She Is Honey, She Is Arsenic 小白 Kandushu Ning Wan and Lin Tianyou's marriage came not from love but from a "joyous" arrangement made when Grandpa Lin fell gravely ill. On their wedding day Li… Dragon King of the World 小白 Fresh out of the military, Han Ye is a man of uncommon skill. No sooner does he step onto the street than a dozen men set upon him. Running as he figh…Publishers
Wandu NovelsShanghai Translation Publishing HouseCITIC PressFengshen Reading NetworkHenan Literature and Art Publishing HouseKandushuQidian