Now living in Xishuangbanna in Yunnan Province, Can Xue has been at the forefront of experimental writing in China since 1983. Her most recent two books to appear in English translation are I Live in the Slums (Yale UP) and Purple Perilla (Common Era Books).

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Annelise Finegan Wasmoen is an editor and translator whose translations from Chinese into English include Can Xue’s novel The Last Lover (Yale University Press), which received the Best Translated Book Award from Three Percent and was longlisted for the National Translation Award from the American Literary Translators Association.

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