Hybrid Identities: Asian Women in Fiction and Reality

Xiaolu Guo, Writer-In-Residence, Weatherhead East Asian Institute; Adjunct Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University

Moderated by: Qin Gao, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work, Columbia School of Social Work

About the Speaker:

Xiaolu Guo is a novelist, essayist and filmmaker. Her memoir Nine Continents won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography 2017 and shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Award and Costa Award. Her novels include A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (Orange Prize for Fiction Shortlist 2007), Village of Stone (2004), and I Am China (2015). She is named as a Granta’s Best of Young British Novelist in 2013. Guo also directed several feature films including How Is Your Fish Today? (Official Selection Sundance) and UFO In Her Eyes (TIFF). She, A Chinese received the “Golden Leopard” award at the Locarno Film Festival 2009. Her documentaries include Five Men & A Caravaggio (London Film Festival 2018) and Late At Night (Rotterdam Film Festival 2014). She is a 2018-19 fellow at the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination and a jury member for the Booker Prize 2019.

This event is organized by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University and co-sponsored by the School of Social Work and the China Center for Social Policy at Columbia University.