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Smith Lecture Video
So as promised here is the link below to the Smith Lecture Video on April 12, 2014. It’s a Google Doc link as the file is too big to upload. There is a short introduction by Fu Ji about the exhibit and overall project and then I’m on. Joan Lebold Cohen follows giving a very…
New Article by Zheng Hongbin
Well I finished my lecture and I just got back into Los Angeles this past week. I still have a lot of notes to go through, emails to write and many thank you’s to send out! I had a wonderful trip and met some great people and reconnected with some old friends! Stay tuned for…
Lecture Accomplished!
So I’m sitting at a cafe at Smith College writing this, finally calm and finally relaxed. Lecture accomplished! I was pretty nervous. I’ve taught and lectured before but it certainly wasn’t as personal. The night before I was up practicing til about midnight but then my brain wouldn’t shut up until 3AM!
First Generation of Chinese Artists in Paris
A talk with Jennifer Wong, granddaughter of the important first generation Paris-trained artist Liu Jipiao (1900-1992), and Joan Lebold Cohen ’54, acclaimed historian of modern Chinese art about the First Generation of Chinese Artists in Paris.
Happy Birthday Mom!
I’m sitting at my computer just wanting to go back to sleep. I’ve been pretty sick this past week. I was going to let the blog go and take a nap but then I realized that Gayook’s birthday is this Tuesday the 25th and I couldn’t let that go by without some sort of acknowledgement…
Sorry For Our Absence…
Sorry for our absence last week! I was having our website moved to a new hosting site. blah, blah, blah! Anyway things are up and running again and life goes on. A couple weeks ago I went to hear Professor Nancy Steinhardt speak at the Huntington Library. She spoke of four architects who studied at…
Why So Few Gardens? Chinese Architecture, 1927–1977
If anyone is in the general vicinity of Pasadena, CA this coming Tuesday and have been following our blog, you may want to check out the lecture “Why So Few Gardens? Chinese Architecture, 1927–1977” at the Huntington Library.
A Friend Comes to Visit…
I was excited to have Fu Ji, a Chinese exchange student currently at Smith College, whom our family met last February in Paris at the INHA Architectural Exchange Conference come to Los Angeles for a few days to visit. She has been very helpful with translation and research for our family project. It was her…
China Traveler 1929
As most of you know, we have been searching for my grandfather’s published and original work. About 6 months ago someone kindly gave us the link to a Chinese Book Seller’s Website. We were able to purchase a copy of Eastern Miscellany that focused on the West Lake Expo of 1929. We had also found…
A Holiday Surprise…
Happy 2014! To start off this New Year I thought I’d share with you a story about a man who wanted to give his wife a holiday surprise. Early last December we received a message through our “Contact Us” Form on this website, it read: Greetings! My name is Steve Pavlina from Houston, TX. I actually…