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: China’s national bird selection is creating a flap with the public. It’s not about the bird, but its name. The country’s State Forestry Administration (SFA) suggested the avian symbol of China should be the dandinghe in Chinese, otherwise known as the Japanese crane, but people aren’t happy with its associations with Japan. […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: When talking about his history teacher, Yang Yifei, a third-year senior high student put on an air of scorn. “He teaches only teaches what’s in the textbooks word for word,” Yang said. The student, who is the top student in history at a well-known secondary school in Beijing continued claiming the teacher […]
Read MoreFrom Danwei TV: Written and directed by Luke Mines, this episode of the Hard Hat Show looks at three Chinese 20 somethings who were born in Mainland China but went abroad at a young age. They have since returned and now live in Beijing where we interviewed them about how it feels to be back […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua via CRI English: A 143-year-old Beijing roast duck restaurant may be closing for renovations but it is not about to let its ovens go cold. To maintain its tradition, the restaurant said it will keep embers from its wood-fired ovens burning during the six-month refurbishing job. The oldest outlet of Quanjude Group of […]
Read MoreFrom The Star Online: Chinese opera is far from dead, at least not according to Cantonese opera maestro Ding Fan Ôºà‰∏ÅÂá°Ôºâ. “When I first started out, I was told that eventually Chinese opera will die out and no one will be watching me perform anymore,” he said. “But here I am 30 years later, still […]
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