Combines Country Classics at www.japanese-home-gardens.com

This room combines country classics - like a Rayburn oven, a hanging rack laden with pots, and lots of wicker storage baskets - with up-to-date touches, such as the stylish Floor and hip artwork, for a modern country look.

Modern Chinese Drama. In the modern era Chinese dramatic presentation has broken away from the traditions of the classic Chinese theater. Differing from the old in both form and spirit, it represents a revolution in dramatic technique. About 1900, politically conscious intellectuals, in an effort to depose the Manchu regime and to modernize their country, turned to the Western theater for inspiration and support. A great number of Western plays, including those of Henrik Ibsen, George Bernard Shaw, Anton Chekhov, and Eugene O'Neill, as well as the classics of every age, were translated, and some of them performed.

Pankaj Vir Gupta and Christine Mueller are founders of the office of vir. mueller architects, which combines architectural research, education, and practice.