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XIV.6 November + December 2007
Page: 52
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The sun rises in the east


Authors:
Aaron Marcus

When I first visited China and Japan in 1975, I was there to lecture about the coming age of computer graphics to designers in Hong Kong and Tokyo. I gazed at China from a guarded border lookout at the northern edge of Hong Kong, which then still belonged to the British Empire, when the Japanese yen exchange was more than 300 per US dollar, almost three times the present number. But since then, much water has flowed under Asia's traditional curved bridges—the world has changed greatly. I recently spent a week in Tokyo and a week in Beijing. The…




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