Growing up, I loved playing basketball and watching NBA back home in China. Now that I’m in the U.S., I wonder how basketball has been an arena for individual desire, such as the thrill basketball gave me, and collective force, such as China-U.S. relationship and Chinese Communist Party ideals, to clash and mediate. I came up with a cartoon character that can be read as me or the mass, a basketball superstar or the fan crowd. Through making prints of and animating the character, as well as incorporating communist propaganda posters and basketball game screen shots, I hope to embody my basketball world of lighthearted fantasy and uncompromising reality.