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 Villagevoice: A first encounter with the paintings of Wei Dong includes a few double takes. You feel an odd displacement, as if you’ve stumbled into an art-history dream where time- traveling European masters, eager to shuck off age-old propriety, are checking out the erotic possibilities of 21st-century China…. Inner Mongolia, an autonomous region but […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily via Xinhua: China’s seas generated 2.09 trillion yuan ($270 billion), or just over 10 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) last year, according to a report on the country’s marine economy in 2006. The report, issued by the State Oceanic Administration (SOA), said last year’s output value of marine industries, including fishing, […]
Read MoreFrom AFP via SawfNews: Chinese art buyers have made a huge impact on the Asian market and are now poised to make inroads into the high-value international scene, says the new Asia chairman of one of the world’s major auction houses. Kevin Ching says one of his aims as the newly-appointed chairman of Sotheby’s in […]
Read MoreFrom Youtube: Below is a video clip of Xiamen traffic at Bin Lang intersection, carried by Youtube:
Read MoreFrom Xinhua via China.org: A masterpiece by prominent Chinese artist Xu Beihong (ÂæêÊÇ≤È∏ø) was auctioned on Saturday at a record 72 million Hong Kong dollars (about US$9.2 million) for a Chinese oil painting. Sotheby’s had said the 1939 painting of an anti-Japanese street play, “Put Down Your Whip,” was expected to fetch at least 30 […]
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