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 REFERENCESWORKS BY XIAOLU GUO (www.guoxiaolu.com)BooksA Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (2007) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/jan/27/featuresreviews.guardianreview33Once Upon a Time in the East (2018)FilmsFar and Near (film)We Went to Wonderland (2008) - https://player.bfi.org.uk/rentals/film/watch-we-went-to-wonderland-2008-onlineShe, a Chinese (2009) - https://player.bfi.org.uk/subscription/film/watch-she-a-chinese-2009-onlineUFO 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.htmWALTER BENJAMIN, 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' (1936)John BergerThe 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-yetI 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-shuklaVincent van Gogh - http://vangoghletters.org/vgAndy Warhol