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my work moves between the visual avant-garde, utopian and dystopian literature, historical pain, and everyday dark humour

i am interested in how beauty, silence, monstrosity, movement, diplomacy, and technocracy reorganise what becomes visible, as well as in what anomalous cases reveal about otherwise normal structures and systems

    Women and Power in Tang China

    This commissioned essay was published by Asian Review of Books (Royal Society for Asian Affairs)

    Xiaolu Guo’s Everyday Tang: On What We Can Learn From a Dynasty (Notting Hill Editions, September 2026)

    Part travelogue, part personal reckoning, Everyday Tang follows Guo and her eleven-year-old daughter, Moon, through China in the summer of 2024. Guo hopes to recover something worth passing on. History obliges with powerful empresses, tattooed courtiers, eunuchs and poets whose unruly desires would complicate any school lesson. The women alone make the Tang worth visiting, though not all their stories are suitable for children.

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