Using personal experiences to understand China's relation with the world
Digging to China is an on-going project that examines global politics through the lens of Chinese encounters and experiences. Using the resources of over 120 in-depth interviews, the films start by asking “what was it like” to go to China for non-Chinese, and "what was it like" to go outside the PRC for Chinese.
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The films explore what it was like to be an American in Shanghai in the 1930s, an Australian in Mao's China in the 1960s, a Chinese in London in the 1970s, what the “China Dream” means today, what can the Great Wall tell us about Trump’s Wall, and whether the US should contain the PRC.
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Bill filming a Chinese tourist at helm of aircraft carrier USS Midway (San Diego, 2016)