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.
Sexy New Pants - Danwei TV
Posted by Sophia Cao | Jan 16, 2007
From Danwei TV: Peng Lei is the guitarist of popular new wave punk band New Pants(Êñ∞Ë£§Â≠ê). he also shoots and directs independent feature films, and owns a store that sells retro toys, and scale models of comic and film characters such as Astroboy, the Japanese cartoon character who was one of the first foreign stars […]
Read MoreHow Did Starbucks Enter The Forbidden City? – Luqiu Luwei
Posted by Sophia Cao | Jan 16, 2007
From Letters From China: Whereas CCTV host urges Starbucks to get out of the Forbidden City, Luqiu Luwei(Èóæ‰∏òÈú≤Ëñá), Phoenix TV reporter, asks in her blog: how did Starbucks enter the Forbidden City? (in translation): It seems to be a big story now. Of course, it is good to see people care about the protection of […]
Read MoreWriters from the 1980s: A Golden Generation Tarnished – Zhang Rui and Chris Dalby
Posted by Sophia Cao | Jan 15, 2007
From China.org: Jiang Fangzhou, born in 1989, published her first novel Rainbow Rider last year. In an interview, she rejected the label of “post-1980s writers,” which she saw as a “scandalous” name. The “post-1980s writers” is a specific phrase in China describing the group of literature rookies born in the 1980s and who have written […]
Read MoreVideo: ‘Red Chinese Battle Plan’ – The 88s
Posted by Sophia Cao | Jan 15, 2007
From The 88s via Shanghaiist: U.S. military propaganda film from the 1960s. All the Mao quotes sound like a white guy faking a Chinese accent. [Link Here]
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