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Xiaolu Guo
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“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.”
Xiaolu Guo (born 1973) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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.”
Xiaolu Guo (born 1973) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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.”
Xiaolu Guo (born 1973) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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.”
Xiaolu Guo (born 1973) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing up, Chatto & Windus, 2017, page 305 (ISBN 9781784740689).
“We now live in an age in which we are all information rich and experience poor.”
Xiaolu Guo (born 1973) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Radical: A Life of My Own, Chatto & Windus, 2023, page 78 (ISBN 9781784744861).
“Nature both creates and destroys.”
Xiaolu Guo (born 1973) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Radical: A Life of My Own, Chatto & Windus, 2023, 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.”
Xiaolu Guo (born 1973) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Radical: A Life of My Own, Chatto & Windus, 2023, page 302 (ISBN 9781784744861).
“The ability to adapt and to change is the key to a healthy society, as well as a healthy individual.”
Xiaolu Guo (born 1973) first seen 2026 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Everyday Tang: On What We Can Learn From a Dynasty, Notting Hill Editions, 2026, page 112 (ISBN 9781912559756).