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33 SEP-OCT 14 / CINEMONTAGE Hollywood Editor's Misadventures in China. While there, he wrote two journals' worth of material about everything he was going through. He recalls, "It smells different. It sounds different. I had my wide eyes as a child taking it all in and I've never stopped talking about it. I've gone back to China seven times since." Over the years, Tuber realized how he influenced those he met there and how the friendships he formed affected his family's life here. He also saw how his understanding of the world had changed. He had to write about it and it took him three years. "I was determined to get this done," he reveals. "Coming home from China and resuming my former life made me appreciate other cultures and open my mind to America's spin on China. I take a longer look now at what America wants us to think of other cultures. People have to think of the Chinese as people." Tuber shared the finished manuscript with three of his Flatland post-production colleagues, who were all impressed with the accuracy of detail and his personal honesty. With no track record as a published author, he decided, "I'll just do it myself and check out self-publishing." After exploring a number of self-publishing services, the editor chose to go with Friesen Press. Shanghai Cuts appeared in May of this year in hardcover, paperback and e-book. "It's my hope to see it translated into Mandarin and published in China, too," Tuber notes. For more information about Shanghai Cuts, see www. friesenpress.com/bookstore/title/119734000012292298/Rick- Tuber-Shanghai-Cuts. ASSISTANT EDITOR JOE WOO, JR. While Tuber wrote his book to describe his cultural adventure outside the film project that brought him to China, veteran assistant editor Joe Woo, Jr. says he wrote Life's Abyss, Then You Dive: A Memoir about the Making of James Cameron's Film 'The Abyss' specifically as "a truthful recollection of the editing process from start to finish that Rick Tuber. Below, Rick Tuber stops for breakfast on the way to his Shanghai editing room in 2002.