c-span: to fukien? >> guest: fukien province. c-span: province. where is it? >> guest: it's built on a river it's--god, it's near xuzhou. i'm terrible. we sort of did a circuit. we went from shiyan, shanghai, xuzhou, then into fukien. and i'm looking at this house or what remains of it, and it's a japanese-style house. and i'm going to my mother `mother, what is this?' and it's, like, `oh, your grandmother loved--your grandmother loved japanese architecture,' and they had this house built in the style of a japanese house. so there i am--obviously, my dad grew up in this house. he designed much of the furniture in the way out of our house in athens, and i--you know, you grow up and you absorb what your cultural surrounding is. so i--i--again, something clicked, and i'm going, `that's perhaps--this is where i get this in--strong affinity towards sort of the shinto shrines of japan, the--the japanese courtyard-style houses.' it's also, i mean, the amazing ability they have of framing the landscape. so no matter where you are in the building, you're really asking