When I first got into the first-year study after the Cultural Revolution, got into the same school with this group, I wasn't conscious of the so-called "Fifth Generation." I didn't like that kind of study condition because there's no real, true education there.

We move so fast that memory is something we can only grasp

I remember one little rainy day I went searching for this apartment and I saw so many people standing on a stoop on the corner in the rain. Later I realized, that was drug traffic. They were all buying drugs.

I have to find a place for my own. I have to search for my own happiness.

A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.

I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.

It's really rubbish that some kind of "technical" learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better.