"The architecture reflected the times, " says Wu Jiang, an architect and former Shanghai urban-planning official whose grandfather was a U.S.-trained architect who worked in the city in the 1930s.

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Poly Museum's curator Jiang Ying Chun is an archeologist by training.

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On March 22, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Jiang Yu, called for an immediate ceasefire.

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Jiang studied electrical engineering at Jiaotong University in Shanghai, which left him with an interest in technology.

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According to his blog, Jiang has a start-up technology company, Hooplus, and was rejected by an investor last November.

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The linchpin of the action is Jiang Cheng, a young travel agent and, in his spare time, a female impersonator, who is having an affair with Wang Ping, a college student and a married man whose wife hires a private eye to follow him.

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