Can Xueis the pseudonym of celebrated experimental writer Deng Xiaohua, born in 1953 in the city of Changsha. She is the author ofVertical Motion,Frontier,Barefoot Doctor,andFive Spice Street, among other books. Karen Gernantis a professor emerita of Chinese history. Chen Zepingwas a professor emeritus of Chinese linguistics.
"""There's a new world master among us and her name is Can Xue.""--Robert Coover ""If China has one possibility of a Nobel laureate it is Can Xue.""--Susan Sontag ""There's something inescapably cosmic about [Can Xue's] writing: the grandness of her vision, the abstraction of her thought, the way the details of lived reality seem to shrink and assume an equal significance, as though one were orbiting a distant star and peering down.""--Bailey Trela, Los Angeles Review of Books ""Can Xue is a master at twisting philosophical ideas into realities that seem simple but are incredibly thoughtful and intricate.""--Emily Park, Booklist ""There's no other writer in China like Can Xue.""--Chad Post, Publishers Weekly"