Penny Pritzker

on January 9, 2018

Penny Pritzker is the founder and Chairman of PSP Capital and its affiliate, Pritzker Realty Group. From June 2013 through January 2017, she served as U.S. Secretary of Commerce in the Obama administration.

She founded Vi Senior Living, and co-founded The Parking Spot and Artemis Real Estate Partners. She is a member of board of the Carnegie Endowment, a member of the Aspen Strategy Group and the Aspen Economic Strategy Group, and on the advisory council of the Hamilton Project. Ms. Pritzker was also a member of the board of the Council on Foreign Relations, on the board of trustees of Stanford University, the Harvard University Board of Overseers, and founded Skills for America’s Future. She also served on President Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness and his Economic Recovery Advisory Board.

Pritzker earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Harvard University and a Juris Doctor and Masters of Business Administration from Stanford University.

‘The Biggest Taboo’

An Interview with Qiu Zhijie

By Ian Johnson on January 6, 2018

One of China’s most influential artists is forty-eight-year-old Qiu Zhijie. A native of southern China’s Fujian province, Qiu studied art in the eastern city of Hangzhou before moving to Beijing in 1994 to pursue a career as a contemporary artist. At the time, contemporary art was illegal in China and artists often lived in villages on the outskirts of town, held underground exhibitions, and were patronized almost exclusively by foreigners.

Reflections on ‘Youth’ and Freedom—A Conversation with Feng Xiaogang and Yan Geling

on January 5, 2018

The movie “Youth” is the first collaboration between Feng Xiaogang, the celebrated Chinese director, and prolific novelist Yan Geling. It is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story about the time both spent in the People’s Liberation Army during the Sino-Vietnam war of 1979, immediately after the Cultural Revolution. In this Q&A the two spoke about the difficulties they face trying to tell authentic contemporary stories of China (中文字幕).