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 China Daily: Zhou Fenying is a living witness to the dark history that still poisons China’s relations with Japan more than 60 years after World War Two. hen Zhou was 22, Japanese soldiers came to her village in eastern China, grabbed her and her sister-in-law and carted them off to a military brothel, she […]
Read MoreFrom Danwei: Cross-talk performer Hou Yaowen died of a heart attack in Beijing over the weekend. Hou, son of the even more famous cross-talk master Hou Baolin, was 59. Hou’s sudden, premature death has had domestic media – both online and off – following the story to a degree that prompted entertainment journalist He Dong […]
Read MoreFrom 163.net: At Huashui Town in Dongyang of Zhejiang Province, Yanxia is a village of 1,000 where almost everyone is good at hand-weaving Chinese knots ‰∏≠ÂõΩÁªì. About 400 families here can make 4 million Chinese knots a month, or 20% China’s total production. Photo 1: Below is a common sight at the Yanxia village:
Read MoreFrom BBC News: The auction house Christie’s has opened a four-day spring sale of Chinese and Asian art in Hong Kong. Christie’s is expecting record prices on some modern Chinese paintings and imperial ceramics. The booming art market in Asia and particularly the growing interest of Chinese buyers is fuelling the buying spree. The works […]
Read MoreFrom CRIEnglish via Xinhua: World famous Chinese actor Zhang Ziyi is expected to play a supporting role in a film about Peking Opera legend Mei Lanfang. Zhang Ziyi will play the role of Meng Xiaodong, a female friend and rumoured lover of Mei Lanfang. Whilst the films director Chen Kaige has met with the actress […]
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