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Can Xue · work and contributions
An experimental Chinese-language writer whose fiction uses shifting perspectives, unsettling spaces and dreamlike logic. Her books invite attention to images and voice rather than a single conventional plot.
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work and contributions
- Vertical Motion
- The Last Lover
- Love in the New Millennium
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