{{Short description|Chinese author}} {{Infobox Chinese |order=st |s=薛忆沩<!--https://www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/13770--> |t=薛憶溈 |p=Xuē Yìwéi }} '''Xue Yiwei''' ({{zh|first=s|s=薛忆沩}}, born in 1964<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cuhk.edu.hk/rct/renditions/authors/xueyw.html|title=Xue Yiwei|work=Renditions<!--See https://www.cuhk.edu.hk/rct/renditions/-->|publisher=Chinese University of Hong Kong|accessdate=2022-07-29}}</ref>) is a Chinese-born Canadian author.
His hometown is Changsha, Hunan, and his birthplace was Chenzhou in the same province.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://china.usc.edu/calendar/fate-novel-amid-chinas-reform|title=The Fate of a Novel Amid China's Reform|publisher=University of California Los Angeles|accessdate=2022-07-29|archive-date=2022-09-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220914083955/https://china.usc.edu/calendar/fate-novel-amid-chinas-reform|url-status=dead}}</ref> He attended the Beijing University of Aeronautics (now Beihang University) in a computer science program, gaining a BsC. Next he attended the Université de Montréal, taking a program in English literature, attaining a Master of Arts. Finally he attended the Guangdong University of Foreign Studies in a doctoral program in linguistics and received his degree.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://library.torontomu.ca:443/asianheritage/authors/xue-yiwei/|title=Xue Yiwei|work=Asian Heritage in Canada|publisher=Toronto Metropolitan University|accessdate=2022-07-29}}</ref>
In 2002, he relocated to Canada,<ref name=IntLARev>{{cite web|url=https://chinachannel.lareviewofbooks.org/author/xue-yiwei/|title=Xue Yiwei: In Search of Universal Values|work=Los Angeles Review of Books|date=2020-04-25}}</ref> due to his disenchantment with the materialism-focused direction of literature in his home country. In February, he occupied an apartment in proximity to the St. Joseph Oratory,<ref name=McGillis>{{cite web|last=McGillis|first=Ian|url=https://montrealgazette.com/entertainment/books/montreals-chinese-literary-secret-is-finally-out|title=Montreal's Chinese literary secret is finally out|newspaper=Montreal Gazette|date=2016-08-25|accessdate=2022-07-29}}</ref> in Côte-des-Neiges.<ref name=Metaphors>{{cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/radio/sunday/garrison-keillor-chinese-writer-xue-yiwei-christiane-amanpour-and-librarian-john-pateman-1.3866221/metaphors-in-montreal-a-david-gutnick-documentary-1.3866507?x-eu-country=false|title=Metaphors in Montreal - a David Gutnick documentary|work=CBC Radio|publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Company|date=2016-11-25|accessdate=2022-07-29}}</ref> In 2016, CBC Radio presented him as having a high level of popularity in China, known to "millions of people".<ref name=Metaphors/> Ha Jin stated that Xue is a "maverick".<ref name=Metaphors/>
''Shenzheners'' was his first work translated into English.<ref name=Quill>{{cite web|last=Beattie|first=Steven W.|url=https://quillandquire.com/review/shenzheners/|title=Shenzheners|work=Quill and Quire|date=6 September 2016 |accessdate=2022-07-29}}</ref> Previously, he was not known among Anglophone audiences, and he lived in Montreal in relative obscurity.<ref name=McGillis/>
==Works== ; Novels<ref name=ShenzhenersLindaLeith>{{cite web|url=https://www.lindaleith.com/publishings/view/47|title=Shenzheners|publisher=Linda Leith Publishing|accessdate=2022-07-29|archive-date=2022-07-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220729223848/https://www.lindaleith.com/publishings/view/47|url-status=dead}}<!--This is the English language publisher of his works, so this should be taken as an RS--> - This is the English language publisher of his works.</ref> * ''Desertion'' (1989) - A new edition was issued in 2012. * ''Dr. Bethune's Children'' (2011) - English translation 2017<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781988130514/dr-bethunes-children.aspx | title=Dr Bethunes Children | access-date=2022-07-29 | archive-date=2023-01-28 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230128234938/https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781988130514/dr-bethunes-children.aspx | url-status=dead }}</ref> This was not published in China.<ref name=LARBQandA>{{cite web|url=https://chinachannel.org/2020/04/25/xue-yiwei/|title=Xue Yiwei: In Search of Universal Values|work=Los Angeles Review of Books|date=2020-04-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200502074647/https://chinachannel.org/2020/04/25/xue-yiwei/ |accessdate=2022-07-29|archive-date=2020-05-02 |quote=[...]The good news is that, unlike ''Dr. Bethune’s Children'' which the Chinese reader has never had an opportunity to read,[...]}}</ref> ** The novel addresses the life of Norman Bethune.<ref name=IntLARev/> * ''Farewells from a Shadow'' (2013) * ''Empty Nest'' (2014) * ''King Lear and Nineteen Seventy-Nine''<ref name=IntLARev/> ** Beginning in March 2020 it was serialized in a magazine in China. Xue had intentions to have an English translation produced.<ref name=LARBQandA/> *''Celia, Misoka, I'' (2016) - English translation 2022<ref>{{Cite book |last=Xue |first=Yiwei |title=Celia, Misoka, I |publisher=Rare Machines |year=2022 |isbn=9781459748040 |location=Toronto, Ontario |language=en |translator-last=Nashef |translator-first=Stephen}}</ref>
; Short stories * ''Shenzheners'' - English translation 2016 * four other works<ref name=ShenzhenersLindaLeith/>
==References== {{reflist|2}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Xue, Yiwei}} Category:People from Changsha Category:Living people Category:People from Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Category:Writers from Montreal Category:Writers from Changsha Category:Writers from Hunan<!--In relation to Chenzhou--> Category:Short story writers from Hunan Category:People from Chenzhou Category:1964 births Category:Beihang University alumni Category:Université de Montréal alumni