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.
From BBC: In the entirely unlikely event of anyone in China happening to forget the importance of 2008, there is a large digital clock next to Tiananmen Square to remind them. The clock counts the days, hours and minutes to the start of the Olympic Games in August next year. To say the games are […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: Chinese President Hu Jintao has vowed “forceful measures” to curb rising food prices and address a booming real estate market that has seen property prices sky-rocket, state press said Tuesday. “The central government attaches great importance to commodity prices and has made it an important task to stabilise them,” Hu said in a […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghai Daily: New Year’s Day 2008 seems to be a great day for getting married – more than 1,360 couples yesterday registered for marriage in Shanghai, 500 more than last New Year’s Day. Yesterday’s marriage registrations were about three times the normal. Pudong New Area and Xuhui and Yangpu districts had the most marriage […]
Read MoreFrom AP via IHT: China kick started its Olympic year with a New Year party Monday with the country’s biggest medal hope on hand to watch fireworks, singing and dancing at a countdown party. The party, put on by the organizers of the Summer Olympics, saw Beijingers flock in the cold to the Millennium Monument, […]
Read MoreBelow is a collection of symbolic architecture of different cities in China, via dwnews.com:
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