Xu Kun

Xu Kun (徐坤; born 1965) is a Chinese postmodern fiction writer based in Beijing.[1][2] She is currently the deputy chair of Beijing Writers Association. She was born in Shenyang and holds a Ph.D. in literature from Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She received her bachelor's and master's degrees from Liaoning University.

Works translated to English

Year	Chinese title	Translated English title	Translator(s)
1997	厨房	"Kitchen"	Richard King[3]
		"Kitchen"	Vivian H. Zhang[4]
		"The Kitchen"	Zhang Ruiqing[5]
		"The Kitchen"	Lin Bin[6]
1999	爱人同志	"My Beloved Comrade"[7]	Chen Haiyan
2005	午夜广场最后的探戈	"Last Tango in the Square One Midsummer Night"[8]	Ji Hua, Gao Wenxing
2006	销签	"Visa Cancelling"[9]	Roddy Flagg

"Kitchen" received the Lu Xun Literary Prize in 2000.

gollark: You'd need rails or something all the way across the Atlantic.

gollark: Oh, and possible new transport thing for the ultrarich: suborbital rocket to a different continent.

gollark: That sounds very cool if quite possibly impractical.

gollark: There aren't that many alternatives.

gollark: Personally, my suggested climate-change-handling policies:- massively scale up nuclear fission power, it's just great in most ways- invest in better rail infrastructure - maglevs are extremely cool™ and fast™ and could maybe partly replace planes?- electric cars could be rented from a local "pool" for intra-city transport, which would save a lot of cost on batteries- increase grid interconnectivity so renewables might be less spotty- impose taxes on particularly badly polluting things- do research into geoengineering things which can keep the temperature from going up as much- increase standards for reparability; we lose so many resources to randomly throwing stuff away because they're designed with planned obsolecence- a very specific thing related to that bit above there - PoE/other low-voltage power grids in homes, since centralizing all the AC→DC conversion circuitry could improve efficiency, lower costs of end-user devices, and make LED lightbulbs less likely to fail (currently some of them include dirt-cheap PSUs which have all *kinds* of problems)

References

Ying, Li-hua (2010). "Xu Kun". Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature. The Scarecrow Press. pp. 223–4. ISBN 978-0-8108-5516-8.
Leung, Laifong (2017). "Xu Kun". Contemporary Chinese Fiction Writers: Biography, Bibliography, and Critical Assessment. Routledge. pp. 256–9. ISBN 978-0-7656-1760-6.
Chinese Literature, May 2000
The Girl Named Luo Shan and Other Stories. Long River Press. 2012. ISBN 978-1-59265-032-3.
How Far Is Forever and More Stories by Women Writers. Foreign Languages Press. 2008. ISBN 978-7-119-05436-0.
The Kitchen and Other Stories. Penguin Group. 2016. ISBN 9781743771877.
Chinese Literature, February 2000
The Great Masque and More Stories of Life in the City. Foreign Languages Press. 2008. ISBN 978-7-119-05437-7.
Irina's Hat. Foreign Languages Press. 2014. ISBN 978-7-119-09307-9.

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[1] Ying, Li-hua (2010). "Xu Kun". Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature. The Scarecrow Press. pp. 223–4. ISBN 978-0-8108-5516-8.

[2] Leung, Laifong (2017). "Xu Kun". Contemporary Chinese Fiction Writers: Biography, Bibliography, and Critical Assessment. Routledge. pp. 256–9. ISBN 978-0-7656-1760-6.

[3] Chinese Literature, May 2000

[4] The Girl Named Luo Shan and Other Stories. Long River Press. 2012. ISBN 978-1-59265-032-3.

[5] How Far Is Forever and More Stories by Women Writers. Foreign Languages Press. 2008. ISBN 978-7-119-05436-0.

[6] The Kitchen and Other Stories. Penguin Group. 2016. ISBN 9781743771877.

[7] Chinese Literature, February 2000

[8] The Great Masque and More Stories of Life in the City. Foreign Languages Press. 2008. ISBN 978-7-119-05437-7.

[9] Irina's Hat. Foreign Languages Press. 2014. ISBN 978-7-119-09307-9.