Can Xue is a pseudonym meaning "dirty snow, leftover snow." She learned English on her own and has written books on Borges, Shakespeare, and Dante. Her publications in English include, The Embroidered Shoes, Five Spice Street, and Blue Light in the Sky, among others.
Karen Gernant is a professor emerita of Chinese history at Southern Oregon University. She translates in collaboration with Chen Zeping.
Chen Zeping is a professor of Chinese linguistics at Fujian Teachers' University, and has collaborated with Karen Gernant on more than ten translations.
"If China has one possibility of a Nobel laureate, it is Can
Xue."Susan Sontag
"There's a common thread between Can Xue and Japanese writer Haruki
Murakami in that both writers use the surreal to expound the
oddness of human experiences; but where Murakami's is a kind of
hipster existentialism, Can Xue roots her existentialism in
folklore. In many ways, Can Xue's place is between Isaac Bashevis
Singer and Franz Kafka."World Literature Today
"At her best, Xue captures the wonder of the natural world and
then, with great assurance, steps beyond into something
entirely."Publishers Weekly
"Xue's creativity with descriptive language is as innovative as
that of the American writers Ray Bradbury and John Steinbeck; her
experiments with synesthesia result in strikingly detailed
backgrounds for her insubstantial plots."The Harvard Crimson
"Can Xue's stories unfold with an eerie, dreamlike intensity. The
ingenuity of her uncanny vision calls to mind a mix of Jorge Luis
Borges and George Mac Donald. But her most striking accomplishment
is the way she brings her characters to life. Despite.the bizarre
situations in which they find themselves, the narrators of these
stories are utterly identifiable, imbued with an endearing
pathos."Baltimore Sun
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