Linear Rhythm. A portrait of three artists - ACE425.4

Jin speaking poem to her mother, wishing she were able to talk to her about her female lover, etc. The paper on which the poem is written is folded into a boat and floated away. A poem to a publisher: she doesn’t want to have to write only about her experiences as an immigrant and of race relations. DIFFICULTIES. Qu continues with the collage. VO on dreams. CHARACTERS. Qu VO "The way without a way is the best." Sheen on "Rachel Lockhart", adopted by a white family and never really thinking of herself as Chinese until her adoptive mother dies and she has to find an identity Sheen thinks that the stereotypes will disappear only when the British Chinese decide who they really are. Jin on the "daughters of [her] imagination". Photographs of Mao, the tank, the demonstrators, the little boy. Qu: "By saying nothing, I have said everything…" Credits.