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 BBC News: More than seven million tickets are available to the public, of which about 75% will go to Chinese residents. Organisers say they have worked to keep prices down in order to make the Olympics affordable for everyone. Fifty-eight percent of all tickets will cost $12 (¬£6) or less, organisers say. Some tickets […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited: Spectacular growth in China and India has pushed the number of people around the world living on less than a dollar a day below the 1 billion level, but masks entrenched poverty in Africa and Latin America, the World Bank said yesterday. Reporting an 80-million drop in extreme poverty in the two […]
Read MoreFrom Liuqiang.space.univs.cn, translated by CDT: Xie Xiaozhuan, from a farming family in Hunan, graduated from Suzhou University in 2004 and enrolled into a graduate program at People’s University in Beijing. He itemized his expenditure during his four-year college to give people an idea of how much a peasant family pay for a college student. The […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghaiist: Shanghaiist posted a dancing video clip from a PricewaterhouseCoopers employee gala in Beijing last fall and translated a report via Xinhua about the charming-ness of men in different parts of China: * Harbin: Macho, but don’t really make good husbands * Chongqing: Powerful, straightforward but tend to be chauvinistic (a bit like Harbin […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: Outward bound and inward bound are the yin and yang of Chinese landscape painting. Movement is the modus operandi in an art that takes us hiking up mountains and cruising down streams, but always in a spirit of rumination. This is action painting as thinking. “Journeys: Mapping the Earth and […]
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