About the author
Can Xue, whose real name is Deng Xiaohua, was born in 1953 in Changsha, Hunan, with ancestral roots in Leiyang, Hunan. She is a representative writer of contemporary Chinese avant-garde literature. She entered the literary scene in 1985 with the novel The Cabin on the Mountain, and has since written works including Yellow Mud Street, The Old Floating Cloud, Breakout Performance, and The Last Lover. Her works have been translated into many languages; she has received the U.S. Best Translated Book Award and was longlisted for the International Booker Prize. Her writing often uses absurd, distorted, and nightmarish narration to portray individual loneliness and spiritual predicaments in reality, and her distinctive style has attracted attention both in China and abroad. The novel included here, Smoke City, is a social novel that continues her inquiry into human nature and the human condition. Public information is limited, and further biographical details are not included here.
Written (6)
Rating 4.3★ Smoke City Can Xue Chunfeng Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025 Yancheng is writer Can Xue's latest original collection of short stories and novellas, published in 2023, comprising eleven works. Probing the minutia… Rating 4.5★ The Collected Works of Can Xue (30 Volumes) Can Xue Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2020 The Collected Works of Can Xue (30 Volumes) is a sprawling assembly of one writer's life work, published by Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House … Tea Garden: New Selected Short Stories by Can Xue Can Xue Shandong Publishing House of Literature and Art · 2020 Can Xue is one of the most distinctive voices in Chinese avant-garde literature. Her novels, such as Yellow Mud Street and The Barefoot Doctor, are ar… Rating 4.0★ Vertical Reading Can Xue Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2014 Vertical Reading is a collection of short stories by the writer Can Xue, published by Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House in 2014 as one of five… The Complete Works of Can Xue: 30 Classic Books (30-Volume Box Set) Can Xue Can Xue's individual books are scattered on the market, and readers who finish the early stories and then go looking for Breakout Performance or Repor… The Secret Sweet Wife: Don't Be Hasty, Arrogant CEO Can Xue Baidu Novel Lin Shirui gets drunk celebrating her entry into the Duan Nao Group with her half-sister Lin Shihua, only to wake up in a hotel bed beside a stranger,…Publishers
Shandong Publishing House of Literature and ArtChunfeng Literature and Art Publishing HouseHunan Literature and Art Publishing HouseBaidu Novel