Sophia Cao is an undergraduate business student at Baruch College in New York. She is interested in Chinese culture and contemporary art, with a particular emphasis on multimedia.
The writer of the article appeals for renaming Peking Opera its Chinese Pinyin form of “Jingju,” from People’s Daily: As China is quickening its tempo going global, cross-cultural communication has become more important than ever before. In some cases, however, it seems difficult to find an equivalent in any other culture to convey the true […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: Two landmark laws that have just gone into effect in China look to drastically alter the business environment, but the reality may turn out to be different, analysts said. In booming, chaotic China, enforcement of any law can be weak or non-existent, and the impacts of the new ones that aim to equalise […]
Read MoreA combination of Internet outrage, protest from world leaders, and Olympics scrutiny appears to be having effects on China’s approach to the death penalty. According to the Los Angeles Times’ Beijing correspondent, “facing pressure before the Olympics, Beijing’s policy is to ‘kill fewer, kill carefully.’ Activists urge more legal reforms.” In 10 years on China’s […]
Read MoreThese photos tell people’s life and stories, via Daqi.com:
Read MoreFrom Screendaily.com: The Beijing 2008 Olympics (August 8-24) will either be the biggest international coming-out party that China has ever seen, or a public-relations nightmare, with human-rights protesters spilling onto the streets and the Chinese government unsure how to deal with them. Within the film industry, there is more of a mood of nervous resignation. […]
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