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.
China’s workers build cities and pay taxes. But aside from meager salaries, they get almost nothing in return: no health care, pension, housing subsidy or education. In this video clip, Laura Ling looks into the rights of migrant workers. [Click to see] – See also Slideshow: Migrants’ Children via CDT
Read MoreMount Everest is a place many Chinese dream of visiting. The mountain is especially popular amongst modern urbanites who are struggling with daily work and want to relax in a natural, holy place. Below is a group of photos of Mount Everest, taken by a netizen on Tianya.com who spent 30 days on and around […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: A German museum has issued a warning that eight statues in its crowd-pulling exhibition on China’s legendary “Terracotta Army” may be fake after an art dealer instigated a police probe into their provenance. “The exhibition continues but we have put up three notices at the entrance warning visitors that the pieces may not […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: China has stopped granting permission for American films to be shown in its theaters in an apparent trade dispute with the United States, according to several Hollywood executives and United States government officials. The Chinese government has not announced any ban, but American movies are no longer being approved for […]
Read MoreIn this video clip, Current.com’s journalist Sherif Soliman illustrates the degree of acceptance of homosexuality in Shanghai by interviewing people in the street. Soliman says that “In 2001 the Chinese government declassified homosexuality from a mental illness. This development, along with an economic boom and emerging gay scene has began to take shape in China’s […]
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