PPX Programs

PPX designs, produces and syndicates a series of cross-cultural, education and arts-based exchange programs, which shall bring to life the US/China historical accounts of constructive, friendship-based and mutually-beneficial collaborations through literature, blogs, social media,  articles, curriculum, photos, videos, music, concerts, and exhibits.

Program Stories

Americans have forged personal and practical alliances during three critical times in China’s recent history. PPX is telling their stories.

Since its inception, KASA/PPX has focused on a select number of historical accounts of a number of American-Chinese families, which began in the Chinese provinces of Jiangxi and Jiangsu. These stories reflect friendships, alliances and beneficial partnerships and are derived from multiple people-to-people exchanges between well-known, major figures and everyday citizens. 

These important historical narratives are being brought to life, curated and shared in China by PPX to raise cross-cultural understanding through educational curricula, course exchanges, photography, articles, literature, videos, museum exhibits, and musical diplomacy.

The Team has initially developed three (3) historical partnership stories, exhibits and music-based programs:

(1) The Lushan Suite - 50 Years Celebration of the Re-Opening of Dialogue through Music (Agreement Signed)

(2) The Pearl Buck Exhibit - The Importance of Kuling as Home - The Life Saving Station - (Agreement Signed)

(3) The 1931 Flood Exhibit - Charles Lindbergh Forgotten Flood Surveys in the Greatest Flood in History (In Development)

PPX amplifies the voices of Pearl Buck and Zhou EnLai, Charles Lindbergh, General Wan, Logan Roots and Chiang Kai Shek. These stories of true partnerships, formed generations ago, reveal a latent yet important impact among friends on both sides who are eager to work together to bring these stories to the world.

PPX stories and personal connections are genuine - they come from the hearts of families who were China’s and America’s children.  Pearl Buck referred to her experience of living in both China and the US as, ‘my several worlds,’ and titled her autobiography with this phrase. This mentality was notably shared by all the American offspring born in China - they belonged to both worlds and neither.

For these people, this unique reality made a sense of belonging to either, very challenging. Being bi-cultured American-Chinese, these people raised their own offspring with a deep appreciation for their home in the East, having had to bridge Eastern and Western culture in their own psyches, when they were young.

As these China-born Americans matured, all KASA members eventually gravitated back to their home in China, because it was there they felt they belonged, despite having left the country decades prior. 

THE LUSHAN SUITE PROGRAM

The Lushan Suite demonstrates how the individual family-to-family friendship and people-to-people exchange of one American family and one Chinese family can change minds and make history. Today, this rich history can be leveraged to lift the Viral Curtain and reopen a friendly dialogue between the US and China, in 2024.