Currently I am rereading Can Xue’s amazing short stories with a focus on uncanny places: Places where quotidian life has an unnerving backside and insects crawl within the dilapidated walls of home.
The research is for a paper I am going to present at this years conference for The Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature, to be held June 18-20, 2015 at ICSCC Fudan University, Shanghai. I am really looking forward to join the panel ‘Modern Chinese Culture and the Uncanny: “Superstition” as a Critique of Enlightenment’, organised by Charles A. Laughlin and Zhange Ni, and see what eerie and interesting discussions come out of it.
For more information about the conference, please go here (scroll down for English).
Read my full abstract here.
小说 XIAOSHUO 小說 
If there are papers about Can Xue that are published or available on-line, I would like to get them connected or at least cited on MIT’s Contemporary Chinese Writers website at:
http://web.mit.edu/ccw
Thanks for any help with this!
Jonathan Griffith
The paper is not published yet, but will definately let you know- have often used your brilliant website.