![]() ![]() Can Xue was allowed to remain in the city because of her poor health. Her father was jailed, and her mother was sent along with her two brothers to the countryside for re-education through labor. In the years that followed, the family suffered greatly under further persecution. Two years later the entire family was evicted from the company housing at the paper and moved to a tiny hut below Yuelu Mountain, on the rural outskirts of Changsha. Her father was sent to the countryside for two years in retribution for allegedly leading an anti-Communist Party group at the paper. Her parents, like many intellectuals at the time, were labeled as ultra-rightists in the Anti-rightist Movement of 1957. She was one of six children born to a man who was once the editor-in-chief of the New Hunan Daily (Chinese: 新湖南日报 pinyin: Xīn Húnán Rìbào). ![]() Her early life was marked by a series of tragic hardships which influenced the direction of her work. Can Xue was born in 1953 in Changsha, Hunan Province, China. ![]()
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