Xu Xi is one of Asia's most important contemporary literary voices in English. This new volume, with a preface by Dr. Michael Ingham of Lingnan University, brings her early works back into print for North American readers. Chinese Walls reveals to readers the invisible walls between the members of a Chinese Indonesian family in 1960s Hong Kong. This raw and controversial first novel was praised by the Far Eastern Economic Review, who welcomed its author as "a welcome new voice into the field of Asian fiction writers" Daughters of Hui includes a novella and three stories of contemporary Asian women, all surnamed Hui, who share a connection to New England and Hong Kong. Named a 1996 Asiaweek "best book, " this superb collection will engage readers worldwide. Xu Xi's uncompromising vision of modern Asian life is a necessary departure from the exotic and "Oriental" of much Western fiction. In the words of one reviewer, "the punch line is devastating.

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