The Kingdom of Surfaces is a 2023 poetry collection by American poet Sally Wen Mao, published by Graywolf Press.

[3] Publishers Weekly wrote that Mao had a "tenacious imagination" and, with it, explored "the politics of beauty and the ironies inherent in culture and civilization under the sign of empire.

[6] Electric Literature said called it "a truly brilliant collection which takes us on a deep, fantastic journey and awakens a profound yearning to not only learn more about the ancient crafts she interweaves throughout, but to question all you’ve ever internalized or learned about Chinese culture, especially in these current times when the pandemic fueled life into a frenzy of violent anti-Asian hate throughout the country.

"[4] The Columbia Journal of Literary Criticism called the book " an ambitious historical examination of the treatment of Asian people in the West, written in the wings of the Coronavirus pandemic.

"[7] The Los Angeles Review of Books wrote that "The poems, sometimes in the shape of vessels curving down the page, take the history of art and make it strange, rendering new the craft of protest".