About the Author

Philip Tinari is a writer and curator based in Beijing. He has written on China for many publications including Artforum, The New York Times Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal. He is China advisor to the international art fair Art Basel and academic consultant to Sotheby's Hong Kong. He holds an A.M. in East Asian studies from Harvard and was a Fulbright fellow at Peking University. Mario Ciampi has been an architectural photographer for more than twenty-five years and his work has appeared in numerous magazines worldwide, most notably Casa Vogue and Architectural Digest.