Chinoiserie Redux is a multi media film with historic arc touching on first encounter between Qianlong, the Celestial Emperor of China and Lord George Macartney, the trade emissary from King George III of England in 1793 and West relations including the events leading up to the Opium War, the European obsession and addiction to tea, the history of Chinese settlers in America, the murder of Vincent Chin in Detroit in 1982 and the continuing trade disputes between China and America.