“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

Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing up, Chatto & Windus, 2017, page 269 (ISBN 9781784740689).
Memoir, 2017

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