Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing up

by Xiaolu Guo

‘Some people are into the power of power/The absolute corrupting power, that makes great men insane’,

the first city wall”. In the old days, people built two layers of wall around their cities and Guo is the space between them. An in-between zone.

Meaning of my surname

seems to me that people decide to settle somewhere not because they love the place, but because they value and cherish what they have invested in it.

Same feeling