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CHRISTINE TSAI-YI TSUNG President and CEO, China Airlines...
...daughter of a nationalist Chinese air force pilot, Tsung has an MBA from the University of Missouri and finance experience at Columbia Pictures and in California city government. After returning to Taiwan in 1999, Tsung, 52, was tapped to run the national airline. She has introduced stock options and appealed to skeptical pilots in the Sichuan dialect that many of them speak. And she's credited for increasing profits 95% in the first quarter...
...reason that we can't read it and so can only admire it, more or less ignorantly, as abstract brush drawing. And yet its range of expressive power comes through marvelously in this show. At one extreme we see the almost chiseled formality of the 12th century Emperor Hui Tsung's script, with its flicking exactness of stroke; at the other, the blithely spontaneous notation of the 8th century Zen Buddhist monk Huai-su, who liked to work when drunk on rice wine. And somewhere in between is the long-arm forehand and backhand of the 16th century scholar-artist...
...Tsung plays the violin seriously, and hopes to continue playing in recitals and competitions after she graduates. She says she had to seek outside resources on her own to continue playing...
...sometimes play at the [New England] Conservatory or I see my teacher from home," Tsung says. "Most musicians here have to find their own teachers either through connections, or some go to the Conservatory...