Liu Heung Shing (Photographer)

b.1951, Hong Kong , Lives and works in Shanghai.

Based in Shanghai, photographer Liu Heung Shing’s (b.1951, Hong Kong) first assignment in China in 1976 came at Life’s behest. He subsequently became Time magazine’s first accredited photographer in China, opening the bureau at the end of 1978 ahead of the normalization of Sino-US diplomatic relations in 1979. In 1981, he joined the Associated Press, moving from Beijing to postings in Los Angeles, New Delhi, Seoul, and Moscow, to cover most major events of the last decades of the twentieth century. In 1989 he received Picture of the Year Award for his news coverage and, in 1992, shared a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the collapse of USSR, for which he was also awarded Overseas Press Club Award. Liu Heung Shing is the author of China, Portrait of a Country (2008), and co-author (with Karen Smith) of Shanghai: A History in Photographs, 1842-Today (2010). He is the founder of Shanghai Center of Photography.

Feng Jiang (Associate Professor and Chai, Department of Architecture, South China University of Technology)

Lell Barnes (John Portman & Associates)

Zhang Lei (Guardian Investment Holdings Co. Ltd, Worked at Great Wall Hotel)

Cole Roskam (Curator)

Cole Roskam is associate professor of architectural history in the Department of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong. He holds master’s and doctoral degrees in art and architectural history from Harvard University. His research examines architecture’s role in mediating moments of transnational interaction and exchange between China and other parts of the world. His articles and essays have appeared in Architectural History, Grey Room, the Journal of Architectural Education, and the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, among others. He recently completed a book manuscript titled An Improvised City: Architecture and Extraterritoriality in Shanghai, 1842-1937. He is currently at work on a second book-length study that explores architectural culture in China between 1972 and 1990. His research has been supported by the Fulbright-Hays Program, the Mellon Foundation/ACLS, the Society of Architectural Historians, Harvard University, the University of Hong Kong, and the University Grants Committee of the Hong Kong SAR.