Mr. Jung Woo Chang

Jung Woo Chang, Director General of the Seoul Transportation Improvement Bureau, holds the Sustainable Transport Award aloft as guests look on.
...
Mayor Lee was represented at the ceremony by Jung Woo Chang, Director-General of Seoul's Transportation Improvement Bureau.In accepting the award, Mr. Chang discussed the impact of Seoul's shift from a car-oriented to a pedestrian-friendly city, which includes an increase in daily transit ridership by almost one million passengers and a doubling of bus speeds on some corridors.Significant reductions in traffic congestion costs, air pollution, and fuel consumption have followed.

The Sustainable Transport Award is given annually and recognizes a city that best exemplifies practices that reduce fuel use, emissions, and traffic accidents, improve mobility for the poor, and enhance the quality of space for pedestrians and bicyclists.

From left to right: Walter Hook, ITDP; Seoul representative Jung Woo Chang, Seoul Transportation Improvement Bureau; Setty Pendakur, TRB Committee ABE90; and Michael Replogle, Environmental Defense.

Mr. Jung Woo Chang, Director of Seoul's Transportation Improvement Bureau, will represent Mayor Lee at the award ceremony and reception at the Hilton Hotel in Washington, DC.

By Jung Chang and Jon Halliday
...
But the level of detail offered by this exhaustively researched book (the labor of more than a decade for novelist Jung Chang and her husband Jon Halliday) creates a compelling portrait of Mao that will still shock many, as will a handful of revelations.
...
Chang and Halliday are able to offer a remarkable level of detail throughout their narrative, due to the impressive breadth and depth of the primary sources they tapped. (A short list includes former US Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush, present and former communist dignitaries and officials throughout the world, one of Mao's official photographers, one of his translators, one of his nurses, a woman who washed his underwear, and the Dalai Lama.)
...
Mao's seeming indifference to the suffering of others is perhaps the hardest aspect to grasp, although Chang and Halliday do a good job of offering a context for his lack of feeling.
...
Jung and Halliday estimate that he caused the deaths of 70 million Chinese.

"There are 2.7 billion people in the world," he once calculated at a world summit with other Communist leaders."One-third could be lost; or a little more, it could be half ...I say that, taking the extreme situation half dies, half lives, but imperialism would be razed to the ground and the whole world would become socialist."

Yet despite his willingness to sacrifice others, Mao is not portrayed as a particularly devout believer.Chang and Halliday paint him as a pragmatist who simply found himself in the right place at the right time.

The biggest surprise in the book is probably its reexamination of Mao's role in the Long March.Chang and Halliday make a compelling case that Mao succeeded here through no heroism of his own but rather largely because Chiang Kai-Shek chose to allow the Red Army safe passage.