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.

China to Adoptees and Teachers: Ugly, Fat, Single, Wrinkled, Prozac Nationals Need Not Apply – Onemanbandwidth

From Onemanbandwidth: According to Seattle Times Writer staff writer Maureen O’Hagan, China is imposing new restrictions on foreign adoptions, barring applicants who are unmarried, obese, older than 50 or who take antidepressants. The education folks are also pushing to limit the age and qualifications of foreign experts headed for the Middle Kingdom. No longer will […]

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Gong Li says Hollywood challenging – Chinaview

From Chinaview via Xinhua News Agency: Chinese actress Gong Li says the biggest challenge she faces in Hollywood isn’t the language barrier, but rather tackling non-Chinese characters. Yet she likes the challenges. Gong has shot a series of English-language movies lately. She portrayed a Japanese escort in “Memoirs of a Geisha,” an ethnic Chinese money […]

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A new Future for China’s Grasslands – Gaoming Jiang

From Chinadialogue: China’s many varieties of grassland cover an area of 1 billion acres. They account for 41% of the country’s total area, and are 3.3 times the size of its cropland. Yet these vast grasslands cannot feed the animals they are home to, which together account for one-third of China’s livestock. Many years of […]

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Photo Series: China Driving Test – Koval.net

From Koval.net: Who is at fault in this picture: [More pictures here] A) The bus driver steering with his knee, reading the newspaper, and simultaneously shouting into his cell phone B) The bicyclist, even small kids know “Size is always right”

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Cultural Treasures: Zhuazhou - CRI

From CRI via China.org: Zhuazhou(ÊäìÂë®) is regarded as one of the most important customs on a child’s first birthday. When a family has a child, the family members want to know what the child will be when he or she grows up. Parents place an assortment of articles in front of their child to choose […]

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