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.

Amid change, we still need a sense of right and wrong – Raymond Zhou

From Raymond Zhou blog: The New Year bells had hardly stopped tolling, when something outwardly tragicomic but inherently disturbing happened in Chengdu, Sichuan. On Tuesday (1/2) morning, a young woman was contemplating jumping off a six-story building. It took the police and firefighters five hours to talk the emotional distressed out of it and move […]

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The great Chinese smoke-up (we puff for the poor ) – Jay Sheng

From Shanghaiist: If part of your New Year’s resolution is to pick up smoking, well here is yet another reason why you have just made an awesome decision (as if prospect of tarred teeth, permanent bad breath and lung cancer aren’t enough to look forward to): Your new habit will help fund education for many […]

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Guangzhou set to be first ‘developed’ city in China – Shanghaist

Kenneth T posts on the Shanghaist blog: Chinese media reported yesterday that Guangzhou is set to become the first city in China to be recognised as ‘developed’ under World Bank standards, which define developed cities as those with a per capita GDP of over US$10,000. The capital of the Guangdong province, which has long been […]

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