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 Xinhua via Shanghai Daily: The strongest March snowstorm to hit northeast China’s Liaoning Province in 56 years has left at least one person dead and seven injured after the roof of an agricultural trade building collapsed under the weight of the snow, local sources said. Three arched ceilings of the Minglian Agricultural Trade Building […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghaiist: In spite of the benefit of being ruled by a “living Buddha,” decades of planning and a cost of billions of dollars, parts of the Beijing-Lhasa railway, China’s “engineering miracle,” are sinking. Specifically, those sections where the project attempts to maintain stability atop the seasonal thawing and refreezing of the permafrost, according to […]
Read MoreFrom Real China blog via Virtual China blog: Virtual China blog introduced a Japanese blog named Real China with a good series of old photos in it. These photos illustrate people’s life-style of the time of 1979. [Click to see more photos] “One Family One Child” A traditional retirement ceremony:
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Experts have warned of environmental pollution from increased animal husbandry, as the country became the world’s top meat and egg producer last year. “Domestic animal and poultry waste has become a major source of environmental pollution,” Oriental Outlook Weekly quoted Wu Weixiang, associate professor with Zhejiang University‘s College of Agriculture, as saying […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via Yahoo News: When Huang Xu was a young soldier in an artillery unit on the Chinese coast in the late 1980s, war with Taiwan always seemed imminent. “We were on alert level one every day, and drilling for Taiwan (contingencies) all the time,” said the driver in the booming coastal city of […]
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