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Guo Xiaolu ist eine chinesische Regisseurin und Autorin. Ab 2002 lebte sie hauptsächlich in London. Nach acht literarischen Werken veröffentlichte sie auf Englisch vier weitere Romane und einen Band mit Erzählungen. Neben ihrer Arbeit als Schriftstellerin war sie Regisseurin in teils preisgekrönten Dokumentarfilmen und Spielfilmen. Wikipedia  

✵ 1973
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Guo Xiaolu: Zitate auf Englisch

“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.”

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Xiaolu Guo

Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing up, Chatto & Windus, 2017, page 259 (ISBN 9781784740689).
Memoir, 2017

“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.”

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Xiaolu Guo

Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing up, Chatto & Windus, 2017, page 269 (ISBN 9781784740689).
Memoir, 2017

“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.”

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Xiaolu Guo

Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing up, Chatto & Windus, 2017, page 259 (ISBN 9781784740689).
Memoir, 2017

“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.”

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Xiaolu Guo

Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing up, Chatto & Windus, 2017, page 305 (ISBN 9781784740689).
Memoir, 2017

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