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Host: Welcome to Unveiling Yunnan. Today we have Brian Liden, who transformed a ...
Brian: Hello Christine. Nice to see you.
2020-09-10 10:58:10 -
Host: First of all, could you please introduce yourself to the audience?
Brian: Yes. My name is Brian Linden. I am from Chicago from America. The first time I came to China was 1984, so a long time ago, 36 years ago. China ever sin...
2020-09-10 10:57:50 -
Host: How is your life in Dali?
Brian: A typical day here in Dali in Xizhou, I wake up really early and I take my dog for a walk. My dog is soon to be seven years old. We got her here in Dal...
2020-09-10 10:57:30 -
Host: why did you choose Dali instead of others?
Brian: We looked all over China, so we spent two years looking for our first site. We've spent time in Anhui, Jingdezhen, Fujian, Guangdong Diaolou all over a...
2020-09-10 10:56:51 -
Host: Could you tell us a bit about the history of Linden Centre?
Brian: I first saw the building in 2004 and it took us about two years to work with the government, and design our ideas before they agreed to let us move ahe...
2020-09-10 10:56:20 -
Host: What features of the old house have been preserved as you developed the ce...
Brian: Developing the center we try to preserve all tangible aspects of the building. We felt that we had to be more creative to incorporate comforts, but the...
2020-09-10 10:55:59 -
Host: If I were a visitor, how could I enjoy good time with locals while staying...
Brian: I guess the easiest thing is the Linden Centre has been placed right in the middle of the village. So as soon as you leave our door in many ways, you a...
2020-09-10 10:55:39 -
Host: Over the past 12 years what role do you think the Linden Centre has played...
Brian: I guess from two points we feel very important is obviously we've tried to bring the world to Xizhou and we do that in a number of ways. We do it throu...
2020-09-10 10:55:15 -
Host: How do you think a region should balance the relationship between economic...
Brian: It's always a very challenging question. It's a difficult challenge to balance economic development and heritage protection. As we grow now in Yunnan a...
2020-09-10 10:54:44 -
Host: Would you like to introduce Dali to others?
Brian: For me what I believed Dali represents the best of two things in China. The old Dali represents a very open very accomodating culture at the kind of cr...
2020-09-10 10:53:42 -
Host: Hello, everyone, welcome to our talk show Unveiling Yunnan. Today we have ...
Patrick: Good afternoon, Christine.
2020-07-06 15:46:12 -
Host: First of all, could you please introduce yourself to the audience?
Patrick: Yes, as you said my name is Patrick Nijs. I used to be an ambassador of Belgium in China from 2009 to 2013. I have had a quite long diplomatic career...
2020-07-06 15:44:33 -
Host: Why did you move to Dongchuan, but not another city in Yunnan?
Patrick: Because Minyan is from Dongchuan. What I knew is that I wanted to retire in Yunnan. I love Yunnan, Yunnan is such a beautiful place. It reminds me a ...
2020-07-06 15:42:33 -
Host: Do you enjoy about your rural life? What it is like?
Patrick: I love this place. I really want to end my life by being part of the nature. This is what matters for me. I don't think I am above nature. I think I'...
2020-07-06 15:41:59 -
Host: You seem to growing a lot of crops and trees, How is the harvest this year...
Patrick: This may be the first time that we really have a harvest. We came here in 2012, so 8 years already setting the place you know, having a place where you...
2020-07-06 15:41:21
