Mid-to-late Southern-Sòng official, zì Cìxiàng 次象, of Hézhōu 和州 (modern Anhui). Jìnshì; held office through Zhī Xīngguó jūn 知興國軍 (prefect of Xīngguójūn, modern Húběi). His career is otherwise scantly recorded — neither the Sòngshǐ nor any private bibliographer gives more than the prefectship. CBDB id 99777 gives fl. 1186–1187, consistent with the Chúnxī (1174–1189) horizon of the latest events in his KR3l0121 Kuíchē zhì 睽車志, the six-juǎn zhìguài compilation that is his sole surviving work. The work belongs methodologically alongside Hóng Mài’s Yíjiān zhì in the Southern-Sòng oral-source-attribution zhìguài mode. Guō is one of the relatively few late-Southern-Sòng officials of whom no canonical biography survives but whose xiǎoshuō output positions him as a notable cultural figure of the Chúnxī literary establishment.