An interview with Xiaolu Guo

Chinese-British novelist, memoirist and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo (b. 1973) talks to Tom Overton about her life in the UK and PR China, and her work in cinema and literature, which explores Chinese history, trans-national identities, class, memory, personal and physical journeys. SELECTED REFERENCES WORKS BY XIAOLU GUO (www.guoxiaolu.com) Books A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (2007) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/jan/27/featuresreviews.guardianreview33 Once Upon a Time in the East (2018) Films Far and Near (film) We Went to Wonderland (2008) - https://player.bfi.org.uk/rentals/film/watch-we-went-to-wonderland-2008-online She, a Chinese (2009) - https://player.bfi.org.uk/subscription/film/watch-she-a-chinese-2009-online UFO in Her Eyes (2009) Late at Night, Voices of Ordinary Madness (2013) Five Men and a Caravaggio (2018) STEVEN BARKER & XIAOLU GUO, 'Notes Towards a Metaphysical Cinema Manifesto' - http://www.guoxiaolu.com/WR_MANIFESTO_1.htm 'Further Notes ...' - http://www.guoxiaolu.com/WR_MANIFESTO_2.htm WALTER BENJAMIN, 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' (1936) John Berger The Cranes are Flying (dir. Mikhail Kalatozov, 1957) - http://sensesofcinema.com/2017/soviet-cinema/the-cranes-are-flying-soviet-cinema/ Mark Fisher - https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n09/jenny-turner/not-no-longer-but-not-yet I Am Cuba (dir. Mikhail Kalatozov, 1964) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058604/ GEORGE ORWELL, Down and Out in Paris and London (1933) Nikesh Shukla - https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/ey-exhibition-van-gogh-and-britain/talk-xiaolu-guo-nikesh-shukla Vincent van Gogh - http://vangoghletters.org/vg Andy Warhol