While on assignment covering the history of the Mongolian yurt and the nomadic way of life in Inner Mongolia for Architectural Digest, he became fascinated by the uniqueness of minority cultures in mainland China and realized how unknown they were to outsiders.
之後，當他為美國《建築文摘》前往內蒙古採訪蒙古包的歷史與牧民生活時，心中湧起了很深的感觸，原來，中國大陸少數民族的文化是如此特別而有趣，卻不為世人所知。