Xiaolu Guo
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Xiaolu Guo (1973-) is a Chinese-British novelist and film-maker.
Memoirs
[edit]Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing up
[edit]- I could only see myself making a living through writing, as I had done in China. But should I write in Chinese here, a foreign land, or enrol in a language class and study English grammar? If I continued to write in Chinese I would have no readers here. Besides, I would never create a community of fellow artists and thinkers in my Western life while speaking Chinese.
- Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing up, Chatto & Windus, 2017, page 259 (ISBN 9781784740689).
- State censorship was an obvious assault on our creativity, but few Chinese writers actually acknowledge the serious and endemic issue of self-censorship. For me it was as clear as the operation of the state's apparatus – without self-censorship an artist in China would get nowhere and had no voice.
- Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing up, Chatto & Windus, 2017, page 259 (ISBN 9781784740689).
- I Am China is a parallel story about two Chinese lovers in exile – the external and internal exile that I had felt since leaving China.
- Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing up, Chatto & Windus, 2017, page 269 (ISBN 9781784740689).
- My growing environmental awareness only added more fuel to the argument for having no children. And the logic of never-ending consumption didn't just harm the environment, it killed people too.
- Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing up, Chatto & Windus, 2017, page 305 (ISBN 9781784740689).
Radical: A Life of My Own
[edit]- We now live in an age in which we are all information rich and experience poor.
- Radical: A Life of My Own, 2023, Chatto & Windus, page 78 (ISBN 9781784744861).
- Nature both creates and destroys.
- Radical: A Life of My Own, 2023, Chatto & Windus, page 285 (ISBN 9781784744861).
- [About Yayoi Kusama:] Classifying her work as 'art brut' is simplistic and unfair. For me she represents the history of womankind. A sexually violated, politically annihilated, socially ignored and emotionally deprived feminine life. One of her works is entitled Self Obliteration, which seems to sum up a woman's utter despair, in life, in art, in anything real in the human world.
- Radical: A Life of My Own, 2023, Chatto & Windus, page 302 (ISBN 9781784744861).
