Our Summer Institute finally opened on June 22nd! A great success! Good turnout, excellent talks, and the best audience! We are grateful for our speakers Prof. Zhang, Ming and Prof. Sang, Tze-lan who talked about The Singing of Song in Song Dynasty Cities and Its Cultural Significance and Negotiating Socialist Industrial Heritage in Post-1979 China:…

Mr. Chen Zhong, a Shenyanger, was born in Shenyang, but moved to Beijing with his family as a teenager in the late 80’s. Now he is a graphic designer with his own studio Qiexianshe (切线社). Here, with a piece of fountain ink pen calligraphy entitled Shenyang and My Life and My Design, he reflects on…