With me to show you when i listen paris quite often after the performance people came and asked me how are you able to play bach in a way that we can understand how were you able to understand. How can you understand western music at all i told them i think in their highest in purest form the arts and cultures of the world are very much related. They have no geographical borders they are the spiritual property of mankind. It was music and bachs music him particular that enabled you shall me to deal with had dreadful experiences the pianist lived through all the excesses of the mound regime years of indoctrination five years of re education another five years locked up in a neighbor camp a shattered family hardship and harassment in one thousand nine hundred eighty she emigrated and finally found a new home in paris this film tells the story of her return to china as an internationally acclaimed interpreter of bachs music thirty five years after she left the country. Should both be true
Sure there was a fear of confronting the past and extremely painful const and there was a fear of facing hostility that. Either could let it go hostility all the animosity of people she might know to and who had not had the chance to go dressed and dedicate their lives to music because she was also afraid of confronting the chinese public. So the idea of going to china in this context seemed a bit crazy especially with the work like the goldberg variations of civil rights a song up with the food. And i thought the chinese audience would still need time to accept it but michelle insisted on doing it again and again so i thought why not try it if i waited too long some day id be too old to do it so we decided to come home. With you to judy. Sasha when returning to shanghai after thirty five news i feel like a stranger. I was born in shanghai and so was my mother oh mama sure i sure was in one chimp but i dont recognize it. I cannot find my birth place from all those Old Buildings those s