In Popular Culture
- Photos of Guilin were used as backdrops for the planet Kashyyyk in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.
- Many scenes from the film The Painted Veil, adapted from the 1925 W. Somerset Maugham novel The Painted Veil were filmed in Guilin and the surrounding area.
- The scenery from the twenty Yuan bill is that of the Li River.
- Guilin is the final area of the video game Shenmue II and the home of Shenhua.
- Guilin was mentioned in the novel The Joy Luck Club as the original home of Suyuan Woo, the mother of the primary narrator of the story, Jing-mei Woo.
- This city was featured in Leg 9 of The Amazing Race Season 14.
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