“Looking China” and “Understanding China”: the third pole culture and learning to be human

In order to put the theory of "Third Pole Film Culture" into practice, and to strengthen cross-cultural communication between China, the United States and Europe in the area of film production, the Academy for International Communication of Chinese Culture has established an interesting and creative film making project entitled “Looking China Youth Film Project”. The present article describes and evaluates the intercultural implications of this project, which connects young people from different parts of the world creating thereby global relations that can be seen as a new hope for innovative intercultural syntheses that can offer us a solid common foundation of a new global ethics, which is more needed now than ever before. The paper concludes that the Third Pole Looking China Young Film project offers a lot of new opportunities to explore and experience the vast arena of intercultural and global human learning.