XU XI 許素細 - Interruptions (2016)

College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts

xxi@holycross.edu

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Authors at Large will be suspending operations as of May 2025 after which Xu Xi will no longer be involved.

Bloomsbury UK/USA

The Art and Craft of Asian Stories: A Writer's Guide and Anthology, co-authored with Robin Hemley (2021)

Penguin

Dear Hong Kong: An Elegy for a City (2017)

C & R Press, USA

That Man in Our Lives (2016)

HKU Press, Hong Kong

Interruptions with photos by David C Clarke (2017)

Asia Pacific Writers & Translators

books

Collection

Monkey in Residence & Other Speculations (2022): out of print

Existential disbelief thrums through 16 speculative stories and essays

This Fish is Fowl: Essays of Being (2019)

Transnational and feminist perspective of a contemporary "glocalized" American life.

Insignificance: Hong Kong Stories (2018) - out of print

Sometimes what is remembered is best forgotten. The protagonists cannot help but recall their former Hong Kong existence, one that shimmers with beauty and pain.

Interruptions (2016)

Ekphrasitic essays in conversation with photography by David Clarke

Access Thirteen Tales (2011) - out of print

The persistence of wounds that will not heal

Evanescent Isles (2008) - out of print

Essays: from my 'city-village'

Overleaf Hong Kong (2004) - out of print

Of the Chinese, Overseas

History's Fiction (2001) & (2005) - out of print

The City of Hong Kong: Stories

Memoir

Dear Hong Kong: An Elegy For A City (2017)

A “Dear John” letter to her city-home

Novel

That Man In Our Lives (2016)

The political & personal balancing of power when a protagonist vanishes

Habit of a Foreign Sky (2010) - out of print

When life goes into free fall.

The Unwalled City (2001) - out of print

An insider's Hong Kong

Hong Kong Rose (1997) & (2004) - out of print

Love and lust, unrequited and transformed in two of the world's great cities

Compendium

Chinese Walls (1994) & Daughters of Hui (1996) - 2nd ed. E Books available

Chinese sex now

Anthology

The Queen of Statue Square (2014)

In, from and of Hong Kong’s past, present & future

Fifty-Fifty (2008) - out of print

New Hong Kong Writing

City Stage (2005)

Hong Kong Playwriting in English

CITY VOICES (2003)

Hong Kong Writing in English 1945 - Present

Interruptions (2016)

Ekphrasitic essays in conversation with photography by David Clarke