An artist and poet who draws inspiration from business

Fu Yiqing's life has many facets. She runs a successful interior decoration business, and travels to scores of countries to learn about local handicraft skills. Her installation art works have drawn huge crowds and more than 90,000 saw her work at the capital's China World Center last month.

But she admits she is mostly known as the poet who "wears Prada and talks about Socrates". She writes poems to balance her "conflicting, yet happy and colorful" life between the business and art worlds.

The "Prada" image she portrays is from the first line of Andante, one of the 35 poems in her phenomenal debut 35 Times Smooth Drifts published by Writers Publishing House, which has a long tradition of publishing literary masters.