San Francisco-based painter Benjamin Wu is among a growing number of artists born and educated in China, who have immigrated to the United States since their country opened its doors to Western thought in the mid-1980s. Thoroughly grounded in the disciplines of traditional realism, their considerable talents are enriching the world of Western art by encouraging viewers to look at America and its history through fresh eyes. Reflecting back nearly four decades, Wu, who was raised in the small coastal village of Zhanjiang on the southern tip of China facing Hong Kong and the South China Sea, recalls the intense
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