The Modern Novel

Biography

Can Xue was born Deng Xiaohua in 1953 in Changsha. She was one of six children and her father was the editor-in-chief of the New Hunan Daily. Like are intellectuals of the era her parents were condemned as a rightists in the 1957Anti-Rightist campaign. If you were evicted from their house, then had to live in a hut. The father was imprisoned and her mother and brothers were sent to work in the fields as part of their e re-education. Because of her poor health she was allowed to remain in the city with a living conditions were poor and, under theCultural Revolution, education was seriously disrupted.education was seriously disrupted. She contracted tuberculosis and the family round and getting food and had to scavenge. She got work as a metal worker and married and had a child. She and her husband started a tailoring business and she started writing, adopting as a pseudonym the name Can Xue so as not to reveal her sex. She has gone on to write, much short fiction, which has been well received

She writes , short, avant garde fiction and has also written works of criticism on writers such as Kafka and Borges.

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