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 Danwei: People tend to keep their distance from Jin Ping Mei(ÈáëÁì∂Ê¢Ö), at least in public. Its graphic sexual content has given the late-Ming classic a reputation as smut that it has been unable to shake off. Performers of pingshuÔºàËØщπ¶Ôºâ, the art of storytelling, have conquered great classical novels as well as more contemporary tales […]
Read MoreFrom Chinaview via Xinhua News Agency: Tuitions to China’s universities, which range from 5,000 yuan to 10,000 yuan (1,200 U.S. dollars) a year, are about 25 times higher than they were in 1989, according to the China Youth and Children Research Center (CYCRC). Annual incomes of urban residents have not nearly kept pace with tuition […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: Guangzhou, the chaotic export capital in southern China, appeared to hit a major Chinese milestone this month, becoming the country’s first city to reach a per capita income of $10,000 ” more than five times the nationwide figure and a rough threshold for becoming a “developed” country. But in a […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghai Daily: Standing atop a stool clamped to a bicycle rack in her long white wedding gown, the giggling bride clasped her bouquet of white roses as the bridegroom pedaled frantically down Huayuan Road in Beijing’s Haidian District to the reception restaurant. “This is the way we like it. I’ll never regret this,” Fan […]
Read MoreFrom Chinaview via Xinhua News Agency: How much does it cost to get a job? If you ask this question to today’s university graduates in China, the answer may differ from several hundreds of yuan to tens of thousand yuan (1 U.S. dollars is presently worth about 7.80 Chinese yuan). As millions of degree holders […]
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