Clare Hall Book Club

Join the College’s Book Club as they discuss Rouge Street: Three Novellas by Shuang Xuetao, translated by Jeremy Tiang.

Shuang Xuetao’s Rouge Street: Three Novellas includes “The Aeronaut”, “Bright Hall”, and “Moses on the Plain”. All are set in the land he grew up in China’s far north: Shenyang in Liaoning Province. Rouge Street is an everyman’s neighborhood populated by men and women who survived the upheavals of Mao’s revolutions. Some lost property and family, others escaped the worst blows, but all are doing whatever they can to keep what little they have as China’s market economy chills. 

Rouge Street: Three Novellas was The New Yorker Best Book of 2022 and a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice. Shuang Xuetao has won many awards in China and is one of the artists behind the Dongbei Renaissance.

All College members are welcome to attend in-person, meeting in Clare Hall’s Meeting Room, or via Zoom. If you are not on the mailing list and would like to be, please send an email to gloria.carnevali@icloud.com, confirming your Clare Hall connection and putting the following as the email title: I would like to join the Book Club mailing list.

Learn more about the Book Club on this page.