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Jonathan Zhu, chief executive officer of Morgan Stanley China, calls himself an "accidental banker"?and for good reason. In the late 1980s, the Shanghai-born Zhu was studying the poetry of William Wordsworth in a Ph.D. program at New York's Cornell University. Wordsworth, he says, wrote his best work during the French Revolution, a period Zhu felt reflected his own experience in Mao's China. But in 1988, Zhu's life changed forever when he joined other Chinese studying abroad on a special tour of his home country, organized by the communist government. He met farmers and fishermen, visited...
Jonothan Zhu, chief executive officer of Morgan Stanley China, calls himself an "accidental banker"--and for good reason. In the late 1980s, the Shanghai-born Zhu was studying the poetry of William Wordsworth in a Ph.D. program at New York's Cornell University. Wordsworth, he says, wrote his best work during the French Revolution, a period Zhu felt reflected his own experience in Mao's China. But in 1988, Zhu's life changed forever when he joined other Chinese studying abroad on a special tour of his home country, organized by the communist government. He met farmers and fishermen, visited...
When he returned to Cornell, Wordsworth had suddenly lost its appeal. "I wanted to be involved," Zhu recalls. "I wanted to do something more useful than studying poetry written by a dead person." He took a leave from the doctorate program--never to return--shifted into law school and in 1995 joined Morgan Stanley as an investment banker. Since then, Zhu, 42, has made himself very, very useful to the Chinese economy. Morgan Stanley has raised $20 billion for Chinese companies, mainly through initial public offerings of stock, and Zhu has been involved in nearly all of them, including mobile...
...segment of the Mori exhibition is given over partly to proposals by such architects as Japan's Kenzo Tange and Arata Isozaki for spectacular megastructures that are cities in themselves, endless systems of fabrication in which the built world is everything and nature is just that green fluff that Wordsworth used to go on about. These are dystopian imaginings, the last word in alienation, though it isn't always clear whether the architects who conceived them were much troubled by that. Either way, they are a fair representation of the impulse within some design circles to face the future with...
LOVEPOETRY.COM Packed with classic verse from Blake, Wordsworth and Shakespeare, this site lets wannabe Walt Whitmans submit their own rhymes as well...