We Went to Wonderland
at Edinburth International Film Festival 2008

We Went to Wonderland & the Concrete Revolution
at Bafici Buenos Aires Film Festival 2008

We Went to Wonderland at Opendoek Festival Belgium & IFFF Cologne/Dortmund

We Went to Wonderland in "New Directors/New Films" series
Museum of Modern Arts/Lincoln Center New/York

We Went to Wonderland, Address Unknown & Far & Near
at Créteil Women Film Festival Paris

'We went to Wonderland' World Premiere
at Rotterdam Film Festival 2008, Cinema of the Future

'The Concrete Revolution' - French DVD Release
'Chine, la deuxième Révolution' - Sortie du DVD français voir ici

'Address Unknown' at Rotterdam Film Festival 2008

TV premiere of 'How is your fish today' on More4 - UK

'How is your fish today' presented at the Royal Society of Arts

'How is your fish today' and 'Address Unknown', official selection, Viennale Vienna International Film Festival, Austria

'How is your fish today', official selection, Hong Kong Asian Film Festival

'How is your fish today', official selection, 42nd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Czech Republic

'How is your fish today' at San Francisco International Film Festival

'How is your fish today' at Buenos Aires International Film Festival, Argentina

'How is your fish today' wins Grand Prix du Jury at the International Women Film Festival, Creteil - Paris, France

'How is your fish today' gets Special mention at Fribourg International Film Festival, Switzerland

Special screening at the ICA, London
'How is your fish today' and 'Address unknown' followed by Q&A with Xiaolu

Sundance 2007, 'How is your fish today' in the World Cinema Competition

36th Rotterdam Film Festival, 'How is your fish today' in the Tiger Awards competition

Xiaolu takes part in the Sundance Screenwriters Lab in Utah
for the "Hay Fever" project

Shoot of "How is your fish today ?" in Beijing and Northern China

Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival - Screening of the Concrete Revolution

The Concrete Revolution
Special Jury Prize
EBS International Documentary Festival, Seoul - Korea

The Concrete Revolution
Grand Prix
International Human Rights Film Festival, Paris - France

Festival Etonnants Voyageurs, St. Malo, France
(readings, events & screening of 'How is your Fish today ?)

Pen World Literature Festival New York - readings & events
(+ screening of 'We Went to Wonderland' on 4th May)

Essex Book Festival - reading

Asia House, London - Meet the Author

Bath Festival, reading

British Museum, reading & screening 'How is your Fish Today ?'

2 EVENTS IN PARIS for the
FRENCH TRANSLATION LAUNCH
'Petit Dictionaire Anglais - Chinois pour Amants'
French translation of 'Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers'

LAUNCH READING
'Petit Dictionaire Anglais - Chinois pour Amants'
Librairie Village Voice
6, rue princesse, 75006 Paris

LAUNCH READING
'Petit Dictionaire Anglais - Chinois pour Amants'
Librairie 'le Phénix'
72, boulevard de Sébastopol, 75003 Paris

Xiaolu co-talk with Yi YunLi at South Bank, London
about her new novel '20 fragments of a ravenous youth'

NEW NOVEL LAUNCH

20 FRAGMENTS OF A RAVENOUS YOUTH

hardback from Chatto & Windus
find out more here

Cheltenham Literature Festival
Xiaolu reads from 'a concise chinese-dictionary for lovers'

Edinburgh Book Festival
Xiaolu reading from 'a concise chinese-dictionary for lovers'

Latitude Festival, Suffolk
Xiaolu reading from 'a concise chinese-dictionary for lovers'

London Literature Festival, South Bank
Xiaolu co-talks with Dai Sijie

Dublin Writers Festival
Xiaolu talk about 'a concise chinese-dictionary for lovers' & screening of 'How is your Fish today'

Reading at Swindon Literary Festival

Reading at Hay on Wye Literature Festival, Wales

'a concise chinese-dictionary for lovers'
shortlisted for the Orange Prize for fiction 2007

Talk at Hongkong Literary Festival

Talk at Shanghai International Literary Festival, China

Talk at Words by the Water Keswick
Literary Festival, Lake District

Talk at Leighton House Museum
in Holland Park, London

Novel Reading at the Klinker Club
The Ivy House Pub, London SE15

reading from 'a concise chinese-dictionary for lovers'
at Waterstone's Bookshop, Hampstead

NEW NOVEL LAUNCH

A CONCISE CHINESE-ENGLISH DICTIONARY FOR LOVERS

hardback from Chatto & Windus
find out more here

Invited to 'Chinese Time Hamburg' week, Germany - book readings and screenings of Concrete Revolution - metropoliskino.de

Book and poetry reading at the Düsseldorf Film Museum, Germany, together with screening of Concrete Revolution

Novel reading at "Lentner" Bookstore, Munich, Germany

Reading at the House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany, as part of the "China between Past and Future" season