Hollywood and China, a Relationship Doomed to Fail

Hollywood and China, a Relationship Doomed to Fail

In 1989, I took my first trip to China. Getting there was anything but straightforward, especially for a young man with no money. It involved flying from Los Angeles to Tokyo and from Tokyo to Hong Kong, then taking the train to Guangzhou, the southern city better known at the time as Canton.

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A commentary on the perils of trying to unite American filmmaking with Chinese markets and vice versa, a struggle only made more difficult by governments on either side of the Pacific that are vehemently opposed to one another's dreams of superpower status.