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Can Xue
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  • A ruptured childhood and a self-taught student of the Western canon
  • Beginnings as a writer
  • Works of fiction and “mind-stretching enchantments”
  • Nonfiction works and literary self-experimentations
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    René Ostberg is an associate editor at Encyclopaedia Britannica. 

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