My friend Xia Lu, who has died aged 61 of cancer, was an architect who since 1990 had been based in Liverpool. Earlier in her career, she was responsible for the design of a KFC facing Tiananmen Square in Beijing. It was the first western-style fast food restaurant in China, and its opening in 1987 generated worldwide publicity. Xia Lu also designed other major buildings, including a street market shopping mall in Beijing and a theatre.
In Liverpool, Xia Lu became an accomplished teacher of the Chinese art of Qi Gong, a system of movement and posture she had learned in Beijing to help her live with a severe form of epilepsy. Doctors warned the illness could prove fatal, but she refused to accept what they told her. Continue reading...
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