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: Child Labor

According to the report, there are 800 million workers in China, around 1/4 of the world’s labor force. At the same time, China has to face the big problem: child labor. In China, child labor is the children, under 16, who take paid jobs for a company or a person. With the economic development of […]

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Chinese TV: From idiot box back to soapbox?- Peijin Chen

From Shanghaiist: From February until August, Chinese TV “golden hours” (5-8pm) programming is going to go on moral diet, shedding excess and unwanted sex, violence, and moral degradation. This we learned from a Chinese report as well as Asia Times Online, where they quoted official Wang Weiping on the matter: “The country’s satellite TV stations […]

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Sex Ed In School An Akward Topic – Xinhua

From Xinhua via Shanghai Daily: A Winter sex education workshop for primary school pupils and their parents opened in Chaoyang District of Beijing on Thursday. When the teacher wrote the question “Where did I come from?” on the blackboard, the children had lots of answers. “My mom found me on a hillside!” “I was taken […]

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Kowtow Not Best Show Of Gratitude – Raymond Zhou

From Raymond Zhou Blog: Winter vacation is around the corner, and a management school at Zhengzhou University has given one special assignment to students happily going home to celebrate Spring Festival: perform a kowtow to their parents. The students are generally not pleased, according to media reports. The school explained that kowtowing is the highest […]

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Girls Cautiously Pole Dance Their Way To Fitness – Reuters

From Reuters via China Daily: As manager of Beijing’s first pole dancing school, Luo says she is trying to make exercise fun — and not morally corrupt anyone in a country where this kind of dancing is associated with seedy bars and sex is still a taboo topic. But she admits she has had a […]

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