Filmmaker, 'FACE of a Nation'
Professor at the University of Southern California's Architecture School, making a film about the signs and symbols of the Shanghai World Expo pavilions called FACE of a Nation
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Mina Chow
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Which Way, L.A.?
The Shanghai Expo and America's Economic Decline Last year, on her first trip overseas as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton went to China, where she wanted to talk about trade and the exchange rate. Chinese leaders wanted to find out why the US had no plans for a pavilion at this year's Shanghai Expo , the biggest thing of its kind in human history.
To the Point
The Shanghai Expo and America's Economic Decline This year's Shanghai Expo makes the Beijing Olympics look like a Little League tournament, according to one observer, with 70 million people expected. But the US pavilion is being criticized as "bland," "uninspired" and "unimpressive." Does that reveal more than an image problem?
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