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ChinaFile Presents: 'Nine Continents' — A Conversation with Memoirist Xiaolu Guo

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NEW YORK, November 9, 2017 — Memoirist Xiaolu Guo discusses her latest book Nine Continents: A Memoir In and Out of China with Senior Fellow at the Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations Isaac Stone Fish. (1 hr., 8 min.)


As a young child, Xiaolu Guo visited a Taoist monk who pronounced her a "peasant warrior." "She will cross the sea and travel to the Nine Continents," the monk predicted.

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But Guo doesn't need a prophecy to tell her to pursue a life beyond her grandparents' poor fishing village on the East China Sea. Through sheer determination and a bit of luck, she won a spot at China's most prestigious film school, the Beijing Film Academy. In the nation's capital, during the 1990s, she witnessed a bustling art world, wrote scripts for Chinese audiences crazy about soap operas, and fell in love with a foreigner. In her late 20s, Guo finally "crossed the sea" after accepting an art fellowship just outside of London — the city where she would ultimately build a life.

After many years away from China, Guo has become "a nomad in both body and mind," not quite Chinese anymore and yet never totally at ease in London. Her latest book, Nine Continents: A Memoir In and Out of China, explores how Chinese families coped with the Cultural Revolution, China's rapid economic growth, and a globalized world.

Copies of Xiaolu Guo's forthcoming book can be purchased at AsiaStore.


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Xiaolu Guo is the author of Village of Stone, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth, and I Am China. She has been named one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. Guo has also directed several award-winning films, including She, A Chinese and a documentary about London, Late at Night. She lives in London and Berlin.

Isaac Stone Fish is a Senior Fellow at the Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations. A frequent commentator on global affairs, Stone Fish's articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Slate, and Time, among other publications, and he has appeared as a guest on CBS, ABC, NPR, MSNBC, BBC, and PRI, among others. He is writing a novel about Donald J. Trump and Kim Jong-un.

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