Can Xue

Deng Xiaohua, who writes under the name Can Xue, was born in Changsha on 30 May 1953. Her father, an editor at the Hunan New Daily, was labelled a rightist in 1957 and sent for re-education, and the family was driven out of its home. She did not go beyond primary school and taught herself. After working as a barefoot doctor, then as a factory worker from 1971, she learned tailoring with her husband and opened a tailor's workshop with him. She published her first story in 1985. She has written commentaries on Kafka, Borges and Dante, among others.

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• Short storiesDialogues in Paradise天堂裏的對話Can Xue · 1988Literature