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Xiaolu Guo, the Glossary

Xiaolu Guo FRSL (born 20 November 1973) is a Chinese-born British novelist, memoirist and film-maker, whose films and writing explore migration, alienation, memory, personal journeys, feminism, translation and transnational identities.^[1]

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Film directors from Zhejiang
Post 70s Generation

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers is a novel by Chinese-born British writer Xiaolu Guo, published in 2007 by Doubleday.

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Aeon (magazine)

Aeon is a digital magazine of ideas, philosophy and culture.

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Alain Robbe-Grillet

Alain Robbe-Grillet (18 August 1922 – 18 February 2008) was a French writer and filmmaker.

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Beijing Film Academy

Beijing Film Academy (BFA) is a municipal public college in Beijing, China.

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Booker Prize

The Booker Prize, formerly the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a prestigious literary award conferred each year for the best single work of sustained fiction written in the English language, which was published in the United Kingdom and/or Ireland.

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Centre Pompidou

The Centre Pompidou, more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou, also known as the Pompidou Centre in English, is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles, rue Montorgueil, and the Marais.

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Costa Book Awards

The Costa Book Awards were a set of annual literary awards recognising English-language books by writers based in UK and Ireland.

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Créteil International Women's Film Festival

The Créteil International Women's Film Festival (in French Festival international de films de femmes de Créteil) is an annual event in Créteil, France, founded by Jackie Buet in 1978 to showcase the directing talents of female filmmakers who, at the time, had difficulty getting their films adequately distributed.

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Cultural Revolution

The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China (PRC).

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Doris Lessing

Doris May Lessing (Tayler; 22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013) was a British novelist.

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EBS International Documentary Festival

EBS International Documentary Festival also known as EIDF, is an annual film festival hosted by the Educational Broadcasting System of South Korea since 2004.

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Film at Lincoln Center

Film at Lincoln Center (FLC), previously known as the Film Society of Lincoln Center (FSLC) until 2019,Aridi, Sara (April 28, 2019).

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Filmfest Hamburg

FILMFEST HAMBURG is an international film festival in Hamburg, the third-largest of its kind in Germany (after Berlin and Munich).

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Filmmaking

Filmmaking or film production is the process by which a motion picture is produced.

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Fribourg International Film Festival

The Fribourg International Film Festival (FIFF) is an annual film festival in Fribourg, Switzerland.

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Goldsmiths Prize

The Goldsmiths Prize is a British literary award, founded in 2013 by Goldsmiths, University of London, in association with the New Statesman. It is awarded annually to a piece of fiction that "breaks the mould or extends the possibilities of the novel form." It is limited to citizens and residents of the United Kingdom and Ireland, and to novels published by presses based in the United Kingdom or Ireland.

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Granta

Granta is a literary magazine and publisher in the United Kingdom whose mission centres on its "belief in the power and urgency of the story, both in fiction and non-fiction, and the story's supreme ability to describe, illuminate and make real." In 2007, The Observer stated: "In its blend of memoirs and photojournalism, and in its championing of contemporary realist fiction, Granta has its face pressed firmly against the window, determined to witness the world." Granta has published twenty-seven laureates of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Haruki Murakami

is a Japanese writer.

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How Is Your Fish Today?

How Is Your Fish Today?, also known as Jin Tian De Yu Zen Me Yang?, is a 2007 Chinese film written by Xiaolu Guo and Hui Rao.

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I Am Cuba

I Am Cuba (Soy Cuba; Я - Куба, Ya – Kuba) is a 1964 film directed by Mikhail Kalatozov at Mosfilm.

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Independent film

An independent film, independent movie, indie film, or indie movie is a feature film or short film that is produced outside the major film studio system in addition to being produced and distributed by independent entertainment companies (or, in some cases, distributed by major companies).

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Independent Lens

Independent Lens is a weekly television series airing on PBS featuring documentary films made by independent filmmakers.

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Institute of Contemporary Arts

The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is an artistic and cultural centre on The Mall in London, just off Trafalgar Square.

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International Dublin Literary Award

The International Dublin Literary Award (Duais Liteartha Idirnáisiúnta Bhaile Átha Chliath), established as the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 1996, is presented each year for a novel written or translated into English.

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International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights

The International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights (FIFDH) is one of the most important international events dedicated to cinema and human rights, held annually in Geneva.

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International Film Festival Rotterdam

International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) is an annual film festival held at the end of January in various locations in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, focused on independent and experimental films.

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Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard (3 December 193013 September 2022) was a French and Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic.

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Jia Zhangke

Jia Zhangke (p, born 24 May 1970) is a renowned Chinese-language film and television director, screenwriter, producer, actor and writer. Xiaolu Guo and Jia Zhangke are Beijing Film Academy alumni, Chinese film directors and post 70s Generation.

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Lincoln Center

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (also simply known as Lincoln Center) is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

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List of reported UFO sightings

This is a list of notable reported sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and related claims of close encounters or abductions.

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Locarno Film Festival

The Locarno Film Festival is a major international film festival, held annually in Locarno, Switzerland.

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Memoir

A memoir is any nonfiction narrative writing based on the author's personal memories.

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Mikhail Kalatozov

Mikhail Konstantinovich Kalatozov (მიხეილ კალატოზიშვილი, Михаил Константинович Калатозов; 28 December 1903 – 26 March 1973), born Mikheil Kalatozishvili, was a Soviet film director of Georgian origin who contributed to both Georgian and Russian cinema.

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Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.

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National Book Critics Circle Award

The National Book Critics Circle Awards are a set of annual American literary awards by the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) to promote "the finest books and reviews published in English".

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National Film and Television School

The National Film and Television School (NFTS) is a film, television and games school established in 1971 and based at Beaconsfield Studios in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England.

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New Directors/New Films Festival

The New Directors/New Films Festival is an annual film festival held in New York City, organized jointly by the Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Novelist

A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction.

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NPR

National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.

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Once Upon a Time in the East (book)

Once Upon a Time in the East is a memoir by Chinese-born British Xiaolu Guo.

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Ondaatje Prize

The Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize is an annual literary award given by the Royal Society of Literature.

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Orwell Prize

The Orwell Prize is a British prize for political writing.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Crystal City, Virginia.

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Red Guards

The Red Guards were a mass, student-led, paramilitary social movement mobilized by Chairman Mao Zedong in 1966 until their abolishment in 1968, during the first phase of the Cultural Revolution, which he had instituted.

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Roland Barthes

Roland Gérard Barthes (12 November 1915 – 26 March 1980) was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician.

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Royal Society of Literature

The Royal Society of Literature (RSL) is a learned society founded in 1820, by King George IV, to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent".

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She, a Chinese

She, a Chinese is a 2009 international co-production drama film directed by Xiaolu Guo.

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Sheffield DocFest

Sheffield DocFest (formerly styled Sheffield Doc/Fest; abbr.Sheffield International Documentary Festival or SIDF), is an international documentary festival and Industry Marketplace held annually in Sheffield, England.

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Social alienation is a person's feeling of disconnection from a group whether friends, family, or wider society with which the individual has an affiliation.

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Sundance Film Festival

The Sundance Film Festival (formerly Utah/US Film Festival, then US Film and Video Festival) is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute.

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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (SFE) is an English language reference work on science fiction, first published in 1979.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The House (1999 film)

The House is a 1999 Chinese film directed by Wang Xiaoshuai.

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The Times Literary Supplement

The Times Literary Supplement (TLS) is a weekly literary review published in London by News UK, a subsidiary of News Corp.

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The Writers' Prize

The Writers' Prize, previously known as the Rathbones Folio Prize, the Folio Prize and The Literature Prize, is a literary award that was sponsored by the London-based publisher The Folio Society for its first two years, 2014–2015.

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Trinh T. Minh-ha

Trinh T. Minh-ha (born 1952 in Hanoi; Vietnamese: Trịnh Thị Minh Hà) is a Vietnamese filmmaker, writer, literary theorist, composer, and professor.

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Udo Kier

Udo Kierspe (born 14 October 1944), known professionally as Udo Kier, is a German actor.

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Unidentified flying object

An unidentified flying object (UFO), or unidentified anomalous phenomenon (UAP), is any perceived airborne, submerged or transmedium phenomenon that cannot be immediately identified or explained.

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University of Bern

The University of Bern (Universität Bern, Université de Berne, Universitas Bernensis) is a public research university in the Swiss capital of Bern.

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University of Nottingham

The University of Nottingham is a public research university in Nottingham, England.

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Venice Film Festival

The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival (Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival held in Venice, Italy.

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Walter Benjamin

Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (15 July 1892 – 26 September 1940) was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic, media theorist, and essayist.

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Wenling

Wenling (Wenling dialect: Ueng-ling Zy) is a coastal county-level city in the municipal region of Taizhou, in southeastern Zhejiang province, China.

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Whitechapel Gallery

The Whitechapel Gallery is a public art gallery in Whitechapel on the north side of Whitechapel High Street, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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Women's Prize for Fiction

The Women's Prize for Fiction (previously with sponsor names Orange Prize for Fiction (1996–2006 and 2009–2012), Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (2007–08) and Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (2014–2017) is one of the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary prizes.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaolu_Guo

Also known as Guo Xiaolu.

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Xiaolu Guo, the Glossary

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See also

Film directors from Zhejiang

Post 70s Generation

References