Meat Rock Rocks!

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The Meat Shaped-Stone is a celebrity in Taipei’s National Palace Museum. It is a treasured piece of the illustrious Imperial collection. It is the Winged Victory (Nike) next to the Mona Lisa of Taipei’s National Palace Museum’s jadeite cabbage. This well traveled rock has visited San Francisco as recently as 2016. Whereas thousands in Europe flock to see a woman’s portrait or a woman’s winged body, in the Asian countries where this famous rock has traveled, thousands come to see it daily. The beauty of the piece to the Chinese is beyond the food fascination. It is the beauty in the illusion: illusion of something hard, yet pretending to be edible, something everlasting pretending to be perishable, a piece of rock pretending to be a precious stone.


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yvonne.liu.wolf

Yvonne Wolf was born in Taiwan and educated in the U.S. and Europe. She has extensive experience living and working internationally (Denmark and Japan). She is fluent in English, Mandarin, and Danish, and has studied Japanese, Spanish, and Greek. Between work and personal travel, she has visited more than 20 countries and well-traveled within the U.S. and Canada. She has worked with organizations and business executives focusing on communication strategies working with Chinese and East Asian partners. Among her many skills is mediating across cultural misunderstandings.