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.

Slideshow: Huge Dumpling Banquet

On 2008 Chinese Lunar New Year’s Eve, people in Liuminying Village in Beijing’s Daxing District continued their 28-year-tradition: A massive dumpling banquet, large in both the number of people attending (thousands)...

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Sexy Beijing: Beijing or Hong Kong?

The new episode of Danwei TV looks into how people celebrate Chinese New Year in Beijing and Hong Kong, via Youtube: As Beijing gears up for Chinese New Year, Sufei finds out how locals celebrate, and if it’s any different...

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Dance: Fei Tian (飞天)

“Fei Tian(飞天),” performed by seven girls from Guangzhou, became the most popular dance during Chinese CCTV New Year’s Gala. The inspiration for the dance came from Dunhuang’s mural art. Fei Tian is...

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China Braces for Winter Fallout

From Al Jazeera: China is slowly emerging from one of its worst winters in a century but millions are likely to spend the biggest holiday of the year without power and water and farmers are counting the cost of destroyed crops....

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Dumplings Poisoned ‘on Purpose’

From BBC: Chinese dumplings which were laced with pesticide and made at least 10 Japanese people ill were probably poisoned on purpose, Japan’s health minister says. The frozen dumplings were contaminated with a highly...

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