It has been said that the 21st century will be China’s century. People from all of the world are coming to China to set up shops or run companies. The movie “Another Sun” tells us five stories each about an Australian who is successful living and working in China. It explores the experiences of Australians living abroad. Through the eyes of these people, what drives so many people to leave their homes and travel to foreign shores was discovered.

　　The first person is a short man called ‘kiwi’ jockey. He is one of the greatest tactical jockeys in the world - and one of the wealthiest. He was born in New Zealand and successfully won the 1989 Melbourne Cup in Australia and now, he plays a key role in the racing industry in Hong Kong. The biggest happened to him was about his son. He thought leaving his son, Nicholas in Australia to come China, making him sadly and homesick. Now this problem has been solved, Nicholas comes up to China six times a year and he always goes back to Australia to see his family. To live abroad, people have to be very mentally strong, he thought. He has looked after himself well because he is not a drinker and he is not a smoker and so he always worker than other people. He likes to associate with the right people and be seen in the right places so he keeps himself clean and that is very important in Hong Kong and he has been here six years and never found trouble. In his opinion, the essential difference about riding here is that there’s more pressure riding in Hong Kong compare to in Australia.

　　The second one is very interesting. He is a Chinese background Australian, which means that his family is from China but he was born and raised in Australia. He is now working for an insurance company in Beijing, the capital city of China. Being a Chinese Australian, the Chinese custom played a very important part of his life. It meant that he was. Between the ages of five and fourteen, he refused to speak Chinese because he didn’t want to be different. He wanted to be like everyone else. He wanted to belong and fit in. While he is living in China now, he finds that it is also difficult to get into the minds of the Chinese. Chinese people think he is different. When he married a white woman, there have been two voices around him, “Couldn’t you find a Chinese, you know a Chinese partner?” or “That’s really special. That’s very unusual.” The secret of his successful is hard working. He spent lots time trying to be friends with local people so he could know their culture and language. He tried and he is now trying to make Australia republic.

　　The third person is a woman who runs one of the leading restaurants in Shanghai and is founder of the Shanghai literary festival. In 1989, She opened \'M at the Fringe\' in Hong Kong, which was one of the earliest pioneers of independent fine dining in the city and is today a Hong Kong classic. However, she was in trouble in Hong Kong. She is a founding member of Greenpeace in Hong Kong and she was against the reunification of Hong Kong and China. Now she has stoped worrying about that. As a businesswoman, making money is the important thing. And Shanghai, a big city in China, gave her the opportunity to do that. After a series of adjustment, she is now living comfortable in Shanghai.

　　The fourth person is the one I dislike the most. He is too crafty for he knows how to utilize other people’s feeling and idea to achieve his own purpose. While he is the manager of the Shanghai Rugby Club, he sometimes plays footaball with the People’s Liberation Army. When they are having a match, Ashley won’t generally beat them. In his opinion, it’s always not wise to beat the Chinese. He always gives the People’s Liberation Army a good beginning but beat them in the end. That’s because he knows that if he beat them too much they won’t come back. While the three stories above are all for special people, Ashley Jones\' story is one of a small businessman doing well in China. He and his German wife Anya run a cashmere factory on the outskirts of Shanghai. Thought he doesn’t know the language and culture of Chinese, he is now living happily with his family. His secret of being cheerful abroad is “home is where your heart is”. If you’re going to live in a foreign country, you don’t dwell on the negative and nothing’s worse than sitting across from someone who’s saying it’s not like home. If you don’t like it leave. If you’re going to be here make the most out of the situation. I think it is exactly true.

　　The last person in that movie is a cinematographer and director, Chris Doyle, known as one of the most prominent figures in the burgeoning Asia film scene. He was born in Sydney, but has lived most of his life in Hong Kong with a dual, trans-cultural identity. Chris speaks fluent French, Mandarin and Cantonese. He has shot a number of films including, \'Rabbit Proof Fence\' and \'The Quiet American\'. For him, to leave well in a foreign country, the most important thing is language. To work as a cinematographer and director in a foreign country, the most important thing is the culture. He usually says he is a Chinese with a skin disease. Now he has known Chinese well so he is successfully being in China.

　　“He who returns has never left”. I think in some way although people may leave a place physically people haven’t really left. It’s part of you. It’s part of your skin, part of your arteries. It is well known that, “Everything that meant anything to me is still part of me.” The secrets of successfully being abroad are: people have to be very mentally strong; people need very hard working; people have to know what they want; people have to make the most out of the situation and to treat the country as a family; and finally, people have to know the language and culture well. These five ideas are not for businesspersons or adults, they are suitable for everyone abroad.

　　I think this movie is very useful. With these ideas found from the movie, we can live better in foreign countries. I’ve known some ways to live well abroad. I have my cousins and my aunty here so I do treat Australia as another home. And although it is my first time living without my parents, I don’t spend lots of time missing them or my friends in China. I always tell myself that I can live with myself. I try hard to learn Australian English and Australian culture so now I can understand part of what Australians are thinking about. Therefore, I think if you have some problem of how to living comfortable in foreign countries, learning something from the movie may be a good idea.

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