Yue-Sai Kan at her home in Shanghai. Yue-Sai Kan created China's first major cosmetics brand in 1992, and is a television celebrity, hosting the show 'Yue-Sai's World'.
Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) partner Ole Scheeren in Beijing. OMA was resposible for the iconic CCTV building in Beijing. Ole has since left OMA and struck out on his own.
Korean artist Lee Bul at her studio in Seoul.
Star architect Delphine Yip at her home in Shanghai, China.
Tai-Chi master Raymond Chiu gives private lessons at the Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong.
Healer Les McClure uses a mix of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) with his patients in Hong Kong. Everythng from shiatsu massage to acupuncture to moxibustion (the burning of herbs just above the skin).
Architect Shin Chow in his Shanghai apartment.
Famed restaurateur Nobu Matsuhisa at his restaurant in the InterContinental hotel in Hong Kong.
A curator at Beijing's F2 contemporary art gallery.
Chef Andre Chiang at Shanghai's now defunct Sens&Bund restaurant. Chef Chiang has since relocated to Singapore where he has his award-winning restaurant JAAN, and plans to open another restaurant in late 2010.
Peninsula Hong Kong Hotel General Manager Rainy Chan and her team inspecting one of the VIP suites in advance of the arrival of the guest.
Chef Gerhard Passrugger and his team at Shanghai's Park Hyatt hotel, located in the Shanghai World Financial Center in Pudong's Lujiazui district. The building was constructed by Japan's Mori Corporation and towers 492m over the city.
Istanbul tastemakers Sefer Caglar (Autobahn furniture designer), Izzet Capa (nightlife czar), Muge Ersin (fashion designer), and Mihda Koray (gallery owner) photographed at Joke Perestroyka night cluba and restaurant. Left to right: Izzet, Mihda, Sefer, and Muge.
Dancers from Shanghai's Jazz du Funk performing in the 1933 performance space. The building was constructed to serve as an abattoir in the 1930s, but has since been repurposed into a mixed art and commercial space on the North Bund district of Shanghai.
Looking out the window into the courtyard at URBN Boutique Hotel in Shanghai, China. The hotel was designed by A00 Architects Raefer Wallis and Sacha Silva.
Barrett Comiskey in the clean room of a Shanghai factory that manufactures E Ink displays. E Ink is a display technology that Barrett invented while an undergraduate student at MIT, and is used in the Amazon Kindle, an electronic reading device.
Master tailor WW Chan at his store in Shanghai, China. Originally from Shanghai he fled with his family to Hong Kong after 194. In Hong Kong they established themselves as high-end tailors, and have returned to Shanghai from the mid-2000s.
Chinese film director Jia Zhangke (贾樟柯) at 'The World' amusement park (世界公园) in south-west Beijing. This amusement park was also the setting for his 2004 film of the same name which launched him into the mainstream of Chinese film as this film was sanctioned by the Chinese government. Jia is part of what is called the '6th Generation' of Chinese film makers.
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