
Old Floating Cloud brings together two of Can Xue's early novellas, Yellow Mud Street and the titular Old Floating Cloud. Yellow Mud Street tells of a street, its people, and a strange event that happens there. The street is dilapidated,...

Can Xue draws the reader into a world of the grotesque and the surreal, of uncertain spaces and indeterminate identities, of sexual menace and psychological disorientation. These novellas are about life in post-Mao China, but not the China of social realism or of Western fantasy...