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Xu Xi


China (b.1954)

XU XI is the author's pinyin short form name which is also her byline, but she is most assuredly NOT the following beings with the same pinyin name: a Chinese painter & sculptor; the author of tomes about acupuncture; a nationalist of or dissident in any nation-state; a reality TV show host in some special economic zone or on YouTube; an Academic in any Intellectual Discipline, real or imagined, as capitalized by Pooh or some other friendly wild thing.
 
 
Novels
   The Unwalled City (2001)
   Hong Kong Rose (2005)
   Habit of a Foreign Sky (2010)
   Chinese Walls (2010)
   That Man in Our Lives (2016)
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Collections
   History's Fiction (2005)
   Overleaf Hong Kong (2005)
   Daughters of Hui (2010)
   Access (2011)
   Insignificance (2018)
   Monkey in Residence & Other Speculations (2022)
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Anthologies edited
   Fifty-Fifty (2010)
   The Queen of Statue Square (2017) (with Madeline Moore)
   The Art and Craft of Asian Stories (2021) (with Robin Hemley)
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Non fiction show
 
Xu Xi recommends
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The All-American (2023)
Joe Milan Jr
"An explosively powerful, unpretentiously original, darkly comic novel about dreams fulfilled by the most unexpected, convoluted and crookedest path. In this universe, there are no model minorities, no redemptions, neither heroes nor villains, only those who strive against the odds of underprivilege. Milan's refreshingly different voice and narrative keeps you reading to the sweetly bitter and weirdly hopeful end."
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Diamond Hill (2021)
Kit Fan
"Kit Fan's admirable debut novel Diamond Hill gives us the heart and soul of Hong Kong. Fan captures, with profound empathy, the temporary and precarious nature of the city. His motley crew-a former heroin addict, Buddhist nuns and prostitutes who have fallen from grace, a teenage gangster girl who runs a triad drug operation, among others-inhabit their Kowloon village before time destroys it . . . Despite disappearance and destiny, memory preserves the city's past along with the Cantonese language in all its rich expressiveness and slang. We look forward to more from this author."

Anthologies containing stories by Xu Xi
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Manhattan Noir (2012)
(Akashic Noir)
edited by
Lawrence Block



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