Chen Zeping

  • The cover to Mother River by Can Xue

    Mother River by Can Xue

    By Can Xue
    Can Xue
    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…
  • The cover to Purple Perilla by Can Xue

    Purple Perilla by Can Xue

    By Can Xue
    Can Xue
    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…
  • The cover to Frontier by Can Xue

    Frontier by Can Xue

    By Can Xue
    Can Xue
    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…