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Capturing Beijing through the viewfinder

By Deng Zhangyu | China Daily | Updated: 2013-07-18 05:46

Capturing Beijing through the viewfinder

A scene from the short film You, Me and Beijing, written by Crosby Selander. Photos Provided to China Daily

American screenwriters take on the challenge of knowing the real China in an international competition, Deng Zhangyu reports.

Is it romantic for an American boy and his brand-new Chinese girlfriend to meet at Tiananmen Square or at the Forbidden City? Foreigners say yes but the Chinese wrinkle their foreheads, whispering it's weird. That was what screenwriter Crosby Selander and his Chinese film team faced often when they sat down to discuss the script in Beijing last month - collisions of ideas between two different cultures.

Capturing Beijing through the viewfinder

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