Pei's ancestors ' success meant that the family lived in the upper echelons of society, but Pei said his father was " not cultivated in the ways of the arts ".

Pei said that " Bing Crosby's films in particular had a tremendous influence on my choosing the United States instead of England to pursue my education.

Pei said he wanted the Mesa Laboratory of the National Center for Atmospheric Research to look " as if it were carved out of the mountain ".

Pei simply smiled and said: " No compromises.

Pei said of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center: " The complications exceeded even my expectations.

Pei was acutely aware, as he said, that " the history of Paris was embedded in the stones of the Louvre.

The combination of off-centered wraparounds and angled walls was, Pei said, designed to provide " a sense of tumultuous youthful energy, rebelling, flailing about ".

In its citation, the jury said: " Ieoh Ming Pei has given this century some of its most beautiful interior spaces and exterior forms ... His versatility and skill in the use of materials approach the level of poetry.

However, Pei Songzhi's commentary, based on the Dianlue ( 典略 ), said that Liu Bei was a descendant of the Marquis of Linyi ( 臨邑侯 ).

It was said that Liu Shan, then already several years old, was separated from Liu Bei when the latter was attacked by Cao Cao in Xiaopei ( 小沛 ; present-day Pei County, Jiangsu ) in 200.

It was said that, while Yuan had no resentment toward Pei personally, he wanted to be chancellor and was fearful that if Pei were victorious, Pei would be recalled and would again dominate the court, and therefore Yuan, as well as his ally Wei Hongjian, were interfering with requests that Pei was making of Emperor Muzong during the campaign.

( It was said that the capitulation was advocated by Yuan, who wanted to relieve Pei of his military command.

" However, it was also said that he was praised for recommending the well-respected officials Song Jing, Pei Yaoqing, and Xu Jingxian ( 許景先 ).

However, after Yuwen's removal, it was said that revenues decreased sharply, and Emperor Xuanzong questioned Pei Guangting and other officials who had criticized Yuwen, " You all claim that Yuwen Rong is evil, and I have removed him.

Pei Yaoqing was said to be intelligent well-learned even in childhood, being able to read complex text when he was only a few years old.

At the age of ten, Pei moved with his family to Shanghai after his father was promoted.

When they finished, Pei spoke with his father at length about the proposal.

Designed by I. M. Pei, the Luce Memorial Chapel on the campus of Tunghai University in Taiwan was constructed in memoriam of Henry Luce's father.

According to Pei Songzhi's annotations in Records of Three Kingdoms, after the fall of Shu, Pang Hui ( son of Pang De ) massacred the Guan clan to avenge his father, who was put to death by Guan Yu.

To flee from enemies, her father Lü Wen ( 呂文 ) brought their family to Pei County, settled there, and became a close friend of the county magistrate.

What is also known is that during Chu – Han Contention, when Liu Bang fought a five-year war with Xiang Yu for supremacy over the Chinese world, his mother, his sister, and he did not initially follow his father to the Principality of Han ( modern Sichuan, Chongqing, and southern Shaanxi ); rather, they stayed in his father's home territory, perhaps in his home town of Pei ( 沛縣, in modern Xuzhou, Jiangsu ) deep in Xiang's Principality of Western Chu, presumably with his grandfather Liu Zhijia.

Pei Yaoqing's grandfather Pei Shen ( 裴慎 ) served as a county magistrate during Tang, and his father Pei Shouzhen ( 裴守真 ) served as a prefectural prefect.

In 1952 Pei and his team began work on a series of projects in Denver, Colorado.

As the Fragrant Hill project was nearing completion, Pei began working on the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City, although his associate James Freed served as lead designer.

As the 1990s began, Pei transitioned into a role of decreased involvement with his firm.

Increasingly, she began to undermine the influence of Prince Gong's faction by supporting conservatives ' ( Prince Chun, Wo Jen, Li Hung Tsao, Chou Tsu Pei ) opposition and criticism of reforms.

Their commanders Sima Dekan ( 司馬德勘 ), Yuan Li ( 元禮 ), and Pei Qiantong ( 裴虔通 ), worried that Emperor Yang would punish them, began considering rebelling and taking the Xiaoguo Army north themselves instead.

Hui Han began to use the Dharma name Most Venerable Hsin Pei.

In noting that neologisms are of immense value to the continued existence of a living language, and that most words are developed as neologisms from root words, Pei stated in The Story of Language:

Pei spent ten years working with New York real estate magnate William Zeckendorf before establishing his own independent design firm that eventually became Pei Cobb Freed & Partners.

The younger Pei, drawn more to music and other cultural forms than to his father's domain of banking, explored art on his own.

Pei found Zeckendorf's personality the opposite of his own ; his new boss was known for his loud speech and gruff demeanor.

During one lecture Pei urged the audience to search China's own traditions for architectural inspiration.

Pei refers to his own " analytical approach " when explaining the lack of a " Pei School ".

Pei compiled the teachings from his own notes and sent the manuscript to the senior monks on Mount Huangbo for further editing and emendation.

Supporters of Nationalist China openly slaughtered prisoners who refused to go to Taiwan, while Communist sympathizers hung one of their own in secret for betraying the identity of Commissar Pei to the Americans during an interrogation session.

Nevertheless, Emperor Yang was probably more interested in obtaining Japan's support in his campaigns against Goguryeo than in matters of decorum, and despite the insult, he sent his own envoy, Pei Shiqing ( 裴世清 ), back to Japan with Ono.

Designed the by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners architectural firm, the tower consists of two separate structures: A 10-story parking garage owned by the city and the 37-story office tower built upon the air rights of the garage.

Pei was fascinated by the representations of college life in the films of Bing Crosby, which differed tremendously from the academic atmosphere in China.

Pei finally saw his architecture come to life in 1950, when he designed a corporate building for Gulf Oil in Atlanta, Georgia.

Pei considers the John F. Kennedy Library " the most important commission " in his life.

Pei Songzhi's annotations provide a relatively clear, though still incomplete picture of Zhao's life.