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 Letters from China: Four men were sentenced to 30 days imprisonment for slaughtering of dogs for food by a Hong Kong court. Counsel for defendants in mitigation said that it was a question of food culture and the case did not involve torture. The learned magistrate was unimpressed – “then assault is even more […]
Read MoreFrom Chinanews: A woman who recently sought for artificial insemination operation in order to have her own baby later found that her “son” did not have a blood relation with its father. The woman sued the hospital for their malpractice and asked for 1.13 million yuan as compensation for their mental suffering, the Hebei Youth […]
Read MoreFrom Chinanews.cn: Chinese scholars proposed recently that China should not only delay people’s retirement age to 65 or even older, but also shorten the retirement age gap between male and female. It is learned that the average life expectancy of Chinese people has risen by more than 20 years since the founding of the People’s […]
Read MoreFrom CRIEnglish: Shanghai‘s suburban Jinshan District, known as “Chinese Picassos,” are famous for their paintings of colorful scenes of country life, and the government is schooling them and setting up a website so they can turn out art to order. In the old Zhonghong Village of suburban Jinshan District, away from the hustle and bustle […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: As Christmas draws near, ten philosophy and education PhD students from China’s top universities jointly publicized a petition on the Internet, calling on netizens, especially the young, to be less excited about the exotic holiday, Shanghai-based Xmnext.com reported December 21, 2006. This is the latest instance of public resistance to western culture […]
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