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 AP via China Daily: China’s foreign reserves, already the world’s largest, have risen past $1.2 trillion, a state news agency said Thursday, amid surging trade and plans to create a multibillion-dollar company to invest some of the stockpile. The figure, as of the end of March, represented a 37.4 percent rise over the same […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghaiist: …The REN Building is a proposal for a hotel, sports and conference center for the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai. The building is conceived as two buildings merging into one. The first building, emerging from the water, is devoted to the activities of the body, and houses the sports and water culture center. […]
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal: In the 1990s, many in China considered Volkswagens high class. But today, well-to-do Chinese are hankering for Bentleys, Ferraris, Mercedes, Audis, deluxe Cadillacs and even Rolls-Royces, reflecting the nation’s growing wealth — and a new boldness about showing it off. Luxury cars entered the Chinese market more than a decade […]
Read MoreFrom China Media Project: In the latest showdown over watchdog journalism and media ethics in China, a spokesperson for China’s health ministry yesterday criticized media for “violating professional ethics” and “misleading the public” in a story on medical fraud that ran last month in a number of newspapers and on major Web portals and caused […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited: The naked Chinese migrant workers were dangling on hooks and ropes from a ceiling in north-east Beijing until a few months ago, when they were bundled up in bubble wrap, crammed into a container and shipped off to London. They are not desperate Chinese peasants seeking illegal entry into the UK. Far […]
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