The Artron Wall at the 11th International Culture Industry Fair in Shenzhen, May 2015. The wall is more than 160 feet in length and nearly 100 feet high. It houses hundreds of thousands of books from more than 2,000 countries in 50,000 categories, with books in Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Russian, and other languages.
Jurgen Haacke is an Associate Professor in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research interests and expertise relate to three areas in particular: the international politics of Southeast Asia; regional organizations and arrangements in the Asia-Pacific, especially ASEAN; and the politics and foreign relations of Burma/Myanmar.
Over the four years I have known him, He Quangui, a gold miner from Shaanxi, has told me many times he wants to travel with me back to Beijing. It’s not just me he wants to visit. He dreams of going to the Chinese leadership’s compound, Zhongnanhai, for an audience with Chinese President Xi Jinping. He wants to tell Xi about the plight of migrant worker-miners like himself, who heeded the government’s call and left the land to work as migrant laborers to bring prosperity to their families—and fueling China’s great growth.
China may face a staggering challenge as it attempts to adapt to the realities of a new age.
Alexander Bernstein is Leonard Bernstein’s second child. He is president of The Bernstein Family Foundation, and founding chairman of The Leonard Bernstein Center For Learning. Prior to his full-time participation in the center, Bernstein taught for five years at the Packer-Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn, New York, first as a second grade teacher, then as a teacher of drama for the middle school. He has studied acting, performed professionally, and worked as a production associate at the ABC News Documentary Unit. Bernstein holds a Master’s degree in English education from New York University and a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard.
A sketch from one of Hu Jie’s notebooks, 2015.
“Let there be light #12,” 2014.
“We #3,” 2015.
“Let there be light #16,” 2015.
“Let there be light #9,” 2014.
