Interview with Jaspar Lau, Director of the artspace Woffer Ten in Shanghai Street, Hong Kong on the future and possibilities of WKCD (west knowloon cultural district). Jaspar is a curator also an art critic based in Hong Kong.

"What is the biggest danger of the wkcd? What is the way can do damage to the development of art community in Hong Kong?"

Conversation with the Chinese thinker Wang Hui on civil society, governance, modernity and cosmopolitanism.

"Now the civil society, when we talked about autonomy of civil society, we have to ask what kind of organization, linked with the old practice. but now people try to use the term civil society which has nothing to do with these practice. (mainly ngo now)
i actually involved some of the moments, a lot of the NGO. these kind of society is kind of global floating, for example, general speaking, the NGO organization can be devided into two groups, international ngo, local NGO. the local NGOs are quite ambiguous, registration itself is very difficult, they have to apply in the business sector. on the other hand, a lot of ngos in china, including local, are from global financial sectors. the programs for these ngos are glocally, they cannot root in the local society. now they mainly focus on the media, local campaign,project, link with the most effective part of that, internationally related. Reconstructing south west china, you need to NGO to mobilize people, also other countries, ngo is a link with foreign powers." Wang Hui

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Scott Lash and Michael Keith in conversation with Cui ZiYuan from ChingHua University and Anne Haila from Helsinki Univeristy Finland on Mega Cities, concerning: property right, land use, chongqing development model, hong kong and the linux model.

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Scott Lash in conversation with Li Shi Qiao (professor) and Esther Lorenz (professional consultant) from the department of architecture, Chinese University of Hong Kong, concerning the west kowloon cultural district (WKCD) project in Hong Kong, which aims to be a large cultural complex like the London South Bank or West End. The conversation concerns the current cultural strategy in Hong Kong and the role of the WKCD in the future.

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