Melissa Chan is currently a graduate student in the department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She graduated from the University of California, Irvine with a degree in English in 2009. Her current research interests are diasporic Chinese populations, film, and translation.
China’s Foreign Ministry has announced that vice premier Li Keqiang will be visiting North and South Korea next week. This comes after North Korea’s announcement that it is ready to resume the six-party talks that it...
Read MoreChina is embracing beauty competitions, which it once rejected, and Maoist ideals of equality have been replaced by modeling competitions and beauty pageants for all ages. Although some say that these contests objectify females...
Read MoreThe recent boom in Hong Kong housing prices led to the discontent and frustration of many families. The government now plans to make thousands of homes available to lower income families by reinstating a revision of a housing...
Read MoreInspired by the Occupy Wall Street demonstration that started in September and organized through social media sites such as Facebook, 300 protesters surrounded the Taipei 101 financial center at 1:01 pm to draw to attention to...
Read MoreChina is now the world’s largest art market. Yet, despite rules that full payment must be received within six months, many large bids made in China’s art auction houses last year remained unpaid when this time limit...
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