I have been engaging with the project during last night when sleeping or dreaming...
We generalise the perception of the world trying to learn. The learning process is a process of generalisation so that everything can be explained in a simple and concise way. I live in Europe and so lots of people ask question such as how’s the weather like in China. They think they can know of China in a generalised way. They never been to China, and maybe do not know much about it. The consider this vast land a single entity. This is fair as we live in a world where everything is divided by the political border. To the rest of the world, this land is called China with a uniformed political system. However, the world is more complex than this. There are 56 nationalities in China, thousands of miles from east to west and north to south... We have borders inside our mind, shaped by the ‘knowledge’ we learn, ‘generalisation’ we form, and we act and think within this border. For an outsider, of course this is the good starting point to learn the anything alien. However, if we want to learn in depth, from an insider point of view, this border has to be scrapped and a range has to be opened. Therefore, for an outsider, it is perfectly ok to start a project called “The Chinese”, but for me, as an outsider/insider, I am not keen to use or make such a single, general or super epic project. The Zeitgeist China will of course not be a trilogy, and it will be a limitless series on different aspects, like there are different kinds of weather in the vast land in China, any time. Trilogy will be this years starting point for me.
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