Vivian Giang is a senior staff editor on the business desk at The New York Times. She oversees Square Feet, a features column on commercial real estate that attempts to break down the distressing data and headlines you hear and see with stories about what's happening on the ground floor. She is also an adjunct professor at NYU Stern School of Business. Vivian enjoys stories about people who broke the rules, because the rules were not written for them. She is among those whom Westerners call “boat people,” but she prefers the term “oceanic refugees.”