30 years." In 2012, Hsia described Taiwan's attempts at cultural preservation as materialistic, due to influence by the Western world. He is a proponent of involving people in the process of reconstruction and cultural preservation. Personal life Hsia's first marriage was to Wang Mei (), with whom he had a son. He later married Chen Ming-fang (). In February 2019, Hsia married Yu Shangqing (), who is 40 years his junior, in Nanjing. Yu, a Chinese computer engineer with a Ph.D. degree, had helped Hsia process electronic information. References 1947 births Living people Urban planners Taiwanese architects Academic staff of the National Taiwan University Harvard University alumni Yale University alumni Feng Chia University alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni Academic journal editors Academic staff of Nanjing University Taiwanese activists Academic staff of Southeast University Taiwanese expatriates in the United States Educators from Nanjing Taiwanese people from Jiangsu Taiwanese expatriates in China Preservationist architects 20th-century architects 21st-century architects