Rochester, New York. Open Letter Books. 2025. 256 pages.Can Xue is a prolific writer of stories, publishing several hundred over the past forty years. Her work is reminiscent of Kafka…

Beijing. People’s Literature Publishing House. 2022. 211 pages. Goddess of Sipsong Panna is a collection of thirteen short stories by the much-acclaimed Chinese writer Can Xue (b. 1953). Set across a…

New York. Common Era. 2020. 148 pages. CAN XUE’S Purple Perilla includes three short stories that immerse readers in a world where reality and absurdity collide. In “An…

Rochester, New York. Open Letter. 2017. 470 pages.Frontier, first published in China in 2008, is Can Xue’s follow-up to her novel The Last Lover, winner of the 2015 Best Translated B…

Karen Gernant & Chen Zeping, tr. Rochester, New York. Open Letter. 2011. ISBN 9781934824375In just a few short years, Open Letter Books, based out of the University of Rochester, has quite impress…