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 Reuters via Signonsandiego.com: An ageing Taiwan fighter jet crashed on Friday during preparation for an exercise aimed at countering an attack by China, killing two Taiwanese pilots and two visiting Singaporean soldiers on the ground, officials said. Nine Singaporean servicemen were injured, two seriously, when the two-seater F-5F jet crashed into a storeroom in […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Working 10 or more hours a day, almost no days off, no regular meals and lack of sleep – that’s the life for 70 percent of the white-collar workers in four of China’s big cities, Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Guangzhou, according to a survey by Beijing Normal University. These white-collar workers, usually […]
Read MoreFrom Danwei: Sina and Bertelsmann are currently running a poll to determine the top 100 Chinese-language authors. Three hundred writers are on the list, ranging from ancient philosophers like Confucius and Laozi to the...
Read MoreA rock singer performing during 2007 Midi Music Festival in Beijing, via Chinarockimages
Read MoreFrom Beijing Newspeak: Calls from within China to lift the ban on the trade of tiger parts have been widely publicised over the last month. I didn’t get a chance to mention Xinhua’s recent story on the issue before going on holiday so I might as well do it now. The article featured a revealing […]
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