Sophia Cao

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.

Survival is Cold Comfort in AIDS-stricken Rural China – Reuters

From Reuters via Yahoo News: With the familiarity of a long-married couple, Leng Zhijin lifts his wife Wang Xiangying’s ragged blouse to show raw rashes and she grasps his shoulder, gaunt after 20 days of diarrhea. Like an estimated 300,000 farmers across central China’s rural Henan province, including some 100 in their brick-and-mud Leng Village […]

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Tiger Wine Among Signs of Illegal Trade in China – AP and MSNBC

From MSNBC: …Tiger skins are valuable and considered status symbols in areas such as Tibet, while bones and other parts of the animal are used in traditional medicines and as aphrodisiacs. There’s even wine made with crushed tiger bone. China banned trade in tiger parts in 1993, but TRAFFIC suspects pressure is growing on the […]

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Police Threaten to Prosecute Wang Shuo – CRI.cn

From CRI.cn via China.org: Police have threatened to prosecute bad boy Chinese author Wang Shuo after he confessed he takes drugs and visits prostitutes during an interview on a Phoenix TV talk show. …Wang Shuo frankly disclosed the unsavory details of his personal life on the show without reservation, triggering a heated debate on the […]

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Ads for Fashion and Soda Pop Pollute Campuses – Xinhua

From Xinhua: Ads for soft drinks and fashion magazines have crept onto Chinese campuses – not only spoiling the ambiance but undermining the very essence of education in the arts and sciences. Fashion Maker, a young advertising company owned and operated by a team of college undergraduates, has bought up ad space in the dining […]

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