“The Orphan of Asia” music video is a collaboration between the artist Fang Lu and the psychedelic rock band Chui Wan. The video shows a toddler walking around the streets of Beijing. Even though the child is surrounded by a multitude of people, it is evident that he is not being attended to by any guardian. His journey starts with landmarks in the city which are crowded with tourists, continues to business centers, filled with fast-walking daily workers, and ends up in areas at the transitioning edge of the city, the expanding border of the metropolitan. Ungoverned by an adult, the untainted child absorbs the environment and translates it into primary emotions: immense happiness, joy, confusion and sadness. His simple walking journey, for us is a contraction of time and history, and a reduction of layers of judgement that we adults inflict upon reality.

Lyrics to “The Orphan of Asia”, written by Chui Wan:

Not 70 years ago
Not 30 years ago
Not today
Not day and night
The orphan of Asia
Is not day and night