Abstract
An epic family drama that spans decades and continents – told by two actors in one room. White Phoenix follows Li CunYi, a Chinese orphan who makes a promise to reunite with his sister, Li CunXin, who is adopted by an American family. As CunYi grows into adulthood in China, he becomes involved with the daughter of a powerful political family, who both aids and manipulates the search for his sister. Meanwhile, CunXin, renamed Annie Bradford, comes of age in America within a prominent senatorial dynasty, and begins a secret romance with the senator’s son. When their parallel journeys finally converge, the long-awaited and fraught reunion between the siblings and their political partners mirrors the conflicted, intense, and incestuous partnership between China and America.