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.

Turning a well-read dream into TV reality – Raymond Zhou

From Raymond Zhou blog: It is a casting call to top all casting calls. The project in question is a television adaptation of “A Dream of Red Mansions,” a mammoth novel that is indisputably the pinnacle of Chinese literature in the fiction genre. There are some 100 roles with names and the Beijing Television Station […]

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Every breath you take in Beijing – Jeremy Goldkorn

From Danwei blog: Yesterday Danwei reported that China’s State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) published air pollution statistics for major Chinese cities. The Beijing pollution rating for December 12, 2006 was a record 500, the maximum score on the scale that SEPA uses. 200 is considered a bad day for Beijing. The primary pollutant on December […]

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Characters in the public interest – Joel Martinsen

From Danwei blog: Exhortations to “write standard characters” appear on banners and billboards throughout Beijing. This full-page spread in The Beijing News on Tuesday announces itself as a “public service advertisement,” (ÂÖ¨ÁõäÂπøÂëä), only the composer has mistakenly replaced “public welfare” (ÂÖ¨Áõä) with the homophone “justice” (ÂÖ¨‰πâ). The copy (click the image for the full thing) […]

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