In The Road to Fame, he tells the story of the government-funded collaboration between the Chinese Central Academy of Drama and Broadway to stage the iconic American 1980 musical as a senior showcase. The film documents the production of Fame—the first Western musical translated into Chinese and perfotrmed by Chinese actors—as a coming-of-age story for the student performers, all of whom are members of China’s Single-Child generation. The characters Wu introduces project in vivid detail the social complications of pursuing their own definitions of success under the weight of parental and cultural expectations.