The exterior design of the China Pavilion at Osaka Expo Photo: Courtesy of China Architecture Design and Research Group .

Her high-profile design has become the benchmark in aesthetic and strategic design ... Xiang is the first Chinese designer that was invited as a jury member of the Frame Awards.

But in his new book “Fin-de-Siècle Russia and Chinese Aesthetics: The Other is the Universal” (Oxford University Press), Yale’s Jinyi Chu argues that modernists of the time did not go along with that ...