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 the 88s via Shanghaiist: We learned about this ad, which apparently is being shown in the US and the UK, from The 88s. He didn’t care for it: I think this commercial nicely sums up the mainstream view of China in the West: the past 40 years simply did not take place. It is […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China has killed more than 5,000 ducks which farmers fed with a dye to make their eggs look redder and fresher, state media said on Friday as the country tackles the latest in a series of food safety scares. China’s food safety watchdog confirmed this week that samples of red-yolked duck eggs sold […]
Read MoreFrom CRIOnline: In Xinye County of Henan Province, people almost can not survive by farming because of the sandy soil, so many of them keep monkeys to make a living, with monkey performances. They travel out of the province to perform, even as far as to Hong Kong, Vietnam and Burma. Some of them never […]
Read MoreFrom China Media Project: Chinese writer Tie Ning (ÈìÅÂáù) was appointed chairman yesterday of the China Writer’s Association (CWA), an official organization that nominally represents the interests of professional writers but which some have said serves as a tool of ideological control. Following in the footsteps of writers Mao Dun and Ba Jin, Tie Ning […]
Read MoreFrom Global Voices Online: …”If I had the right to elect the deputies to the National People’s Congress,” says Bokee blogger Ren Binju fresh back from the polls, I sure wouldn’t have chosen any of them: If I had the right to elect the deputies to the National People’s Congress, I’d definitely choose more people […]
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