Tai-Tai
I would like for you all to meet one of our young guides/local assistants, Tai-Tai. It is common for Chinese children to have their Chinese name (made up of a family name, a generational name, and their given name) as well as a shortening and repeating of that Chinese name as a nick-name. In addition they may also have an english name.
Tai-Tai is studying Fashion Design, and working for AIR this summer. He LOVES Lady Gaga, magazines, ordering clothes online, and making over-exaggerated jabs at anyone who can take it.
It has been a treat to see what he will wear each day, and always entertaining to hear his stereo types of what he and Jamie like to call “us young Chinese” or the American youth culture. He is ordering some shirts from the internet for a few students that are an emblem to his generation, equivalent of a “child of the eighties” tee, this one has some more significance than the 80s pop resurgence in America because of the more drastic difference in Tai-Tai’s generation, than the preceding. *More on this later.
Tai-Tai has been our constant source of entertainment, and information so-far and we are very luck to have him. I hope to look at some of his design ideas and share them with you soon.
More spotlights to come.