Under a gray sky a bus stops on a bridge and veteran Gu Zidi steps out. He has just returned from the battlefields of the Korean War (1950-53). He is blind in his right eye.
In the middle of a cold Beijing March, the Canadian casting director called me about the job. "You will be working as the assistant to the lead actress in a movie starring Jackie Chan and Jet Li," she said.
Tang Wei didn't know what it was that she was auditioning for, or who was involved with the production. She had no idea that 10,000 actresses, including many A-listers, were competing for the role.
When Chinese art critic Fei Dawei arrived in France in 1986 carrying more than 1,000 slides of Chinese contemporary art works in his carry bag, he would never have imagined the impact he was about to make. The Western view on China's budding contemporary art scene was about to change forever.
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