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.

Ways of looking at Curse of the Golden Flower – Joel Martinsen

From Danwei blog: There’s been quite a bit said about how bad Zhang Yimou‘s latest film is: how Curse of the Golden Flower is all empty spectacle, how its skimpy costumes and blood-soaked finale amount to commercialized garbage, and how its social commentary is superficial and essentially irrelevant…. Seven layers of Curse of the Golden […]

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Tea shop has ‘mistress’ … Shanghai authorities jealous – Dan Washburn

From AP via Shanghaiist: …A Shanghai tea house whose name translates roughly as “Frog Keeps a Mistress” has been deemed a threat to public morality and told to get a new moniker, local media said Friday. The “Qingwa Bao ErnaiÔºàÈùíËõôÂåÖ‰∫å•∂Ժ┠shop was violating China’s advertising law, the Shanghai Daily and other newspapers said, citing a […]

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How I became Time’s Person of the Year – Wang Xiaofeng

“Chinese people don’t do satire like Israelis and the English.” “They don’t have that making-fun-of-yourself gene.” Said Wang Xiaofeng, one of the most famous bloggers in China. He put the following satire post(Chinese) on his blog to tell how he became Time magazine’s Person of the Year, translated and carried by Raymond Zhou’s blog: Last […]

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Slideshow: Poor and Rich, Homes in Shanghai

From Wenxuecity.com: It is people’s daily life that shows the development of the society and improvement of the economy. It is home that shows the owner’s economical status, social position, and cultural taste. The following photos of Shanghai homes were taken to illustrate different people’s life style. It includes billionaire, middle class, common people and […]

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