Deng Xiaohua (Chinese: ???; pinyin: Dèng Xiaohuá; born May 30, 1953), better known by her pen name Can Xue (Chinese: ??; pinyin: Cán Xue), is a Chinese avant-garde fiction writer and literary critic.
Her family was severely persecuted following her father being labeled a rightist in the Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957.
Her writing, which consists mostly of short fiction, breaks with the realism of earlier modern Chinese writers.
She has also written novels, novellas, and literary criticisms of the work of Dante, Jorge Luis Borges, and Franz Kafka.
Some of her fiction has been translated and published in English.