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During the panel discussion, when asked about his impressions of America, Robert Wei from Peking University said the “diversity in this society” represented the “harmony” in America...
...There are 148 houses and townhouses as well as three 11-story apartment buildings in Emerald Riverside, and Fan Wei, the president of Forte and Guo Guangchang's deputy, says they are all sold. Slowly, as the day draws nearer that the town will be linked to Shanghai, people are beginning to move in. Until recently, one of our neighbors was Zhang Shuyi, 35, who owns his own small advertising agency. He lived just behind us with his girlfriend and a big mutt of a dog who occasionally scared the daylights out of our daughter, Abby. (Zhang, in typical Shanghainese...
...Bawa's impact on Asian architects - Sri Lankan Milroy Perera, Singaporean Mok Wei Wei and many others documented by Robson - is certainly plain to see. All have adapted the basic regionalist Bawa style, which Bawa only loosely outlined. First, he wrote in a 1968 article, "a building must, at the very least, satisfy the needs that gave it birth, both physical and spiritual." Second, it "must be in accord and in sympathy with the ambience [of its setting]." And "there must be a knowledgeable and true use of the materials with which you build...
...pillars, green floors and some sumptuously curvaceous green sofas that look like they might be sculptures in their own right, the Ya Chao or Refined Nest Gallery, www.yachaogallery.com, is almost a parody of a funky art space. It specializes in Chinese contemporary art - Chen Feng, Han Jia Quan, Pan Wei, Liu Xuguang, Qu Fengguo, Cai Bing - but also deals in artists from the New Chinese fine arts movement...
Qian also credited his thesis adviser David Der-Wei Wang, a professor of Chinese literature, for much of his success. “He has been a real model to me, and I don’t know where I would be without...