Fashion in China
Nanchang university offers degrees not only in fashion design but also in fashion modeling. What a smart combination and interesting topic of conversation: "My first semester for my master degree I had to totally relearn how to swing my hips and second semester I nearly flunked my "Lascivious Looks" seminar. Fortunately my grades in "Makeup in Marxism-Leninism" helped me.
Music, Math, and Magic
Chu Yi-Bing and 5 of his students performed at Nanchang's art school. Chu before becoming the first cellist at the Beijing Philharmonic Orchestra, played in Basle and Munich. His mastery of the cello, his tone, his phrasing, ... breathtaking.
Over dinner the evening however turned from music to Rubic's cube when their photographer Francois Sechet showed how to solve the cube, with closed eyes, in about 20 seconds (total time 1 minute 30 seconds, because he needs a minute and 10 seconds to remember the position of the cube).