It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.

My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.

I begin by imagining an artwork verbally. I try to describe in writing what the project is, what it is trying to do. I need to understand the artwork without giving it a specific materiality or solid form.

The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.

I also wanted remembering the past relevant to the present. Some people wanted me to put the names in alphabetical order. I wanted them in chronological order so that a veteran could find his time within the panel. It's like a thread of life.

If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.

We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.