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“It's always the rich and there's plenty to waste, yet still China has a lot of people living in very spare, poor conditions.”

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“A nation like China has become one of the biggest production fields for exporting cheap labor, which also re-questions our history and past, re-questions human desire, and the human illusions of the past.”

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“China hasn't only existed for one day. Now, the whole nation has become richer and it's become a problem. The problem is universal. The factor is big. Everybody has to rethink the balance of the world and the whole landscape.”

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“Any design, any city, any kind of craziness or tragedy, it all comes from a long time of preparation.”

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“Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I'm not nostalgic about the old city. I don't enjoy it that much.”

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“I'm not nostalgic about the old city. I don't enjoy it that much. It was just a city with one emperor and the rest of them just rats or meaningless people.”

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“The society was so different [in China] - it was a feudalistic society. It didn't come to a point of industrial revolution until twenty years ago.”

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“Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age.”

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“Of course, there [in China] has to be chaos. It has to be crazy, and I don't think there's anything wrong about it except this government, which is really incapable of doing anything meaningful.”

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“Otherwise, I think the building can be bigger, larger, and the city can be much more crazy. The problem is the government structure is so deadly stupid, not really solving problems but creating a lot of problems itself every day.”

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