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Xu Xi

Xu Xi
Xu Xi 許素細 is Indonesian-Chinese from Hong Kong and author of fourteen books of fiction and nonfiction. New and forthcoming titles include This Fish Is Fowl: Essays of Being (Nebraska, 2019), The Art and Craft of Asian Stories (Bloomsbury, 2021), and Monkey in Residence and Other Speculations (Signal 8, 2023). She cofounded Authors at Large and currently occupies the William H. P. Jenks Chair in Contemporary Letters at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. A diehard transnational, she has long split her life between the state of New York and the rest of the world.


Xu Xi on Living the Transnational Literary Life

“Life really isn’t stranger than fiction, but you have to keep reading, and rereading, to know that.”
May 23, 2022  By Xu Xi
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Money, Guilt, and Returning to Hong Kong to Care for My Mother

Xu Xi on the Changing Attitudes to Filial Piety
March 18, 2019  By Xu Xi
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