THE CHINA TRILOGY
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	RUNNING TIME: To be determined MEDIUM: Digital video, mixed media YEAR: To be determined PRODUCTION: Public Radio and Camera Assembly
	My father took me to China in 2004. I hadn't been back in over twenty-five years, since being born in that country. On more than a few occasions, Chinese people would speak to me on the street. I answered back not in Mandarin, not in Cantonese, but in English: "I'm sorry, I don't know what you're saying." My father had to order food for me, ask for washrooms for me, ask for prices for me. I was a child again in my mid-twenties. And my father... He didn't wear the generic button-down shirts, the generic slacks, the knock-off Gucci belts and loafers that five-hundred-million generic Chinese men were wearing. My father dressed like a Canadian. Jeans. Baseball cap. A polo shirt that curiously had an embroidered Chevron logo. In our village outside Guangzhou I would wake up to a mother next door yelling at her kids in our Cantonese dialect, our village dialect that I don't speak in public because I fear it sounds horrible. But when I heard the mother demanding her crying kid to shut up, all coarse consonants, I realised, "This is home."
	THE CHINA TRILOGY Prologue Chapter 1: Beijing Chapter 2: Shanghai Chapter 3: Guangzhou Epilogue (Hong Kong) The China Trilogy's chapters can be screened separately as individual videos, or together as a feature-length documentary.
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