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.

Photo Series: Early Movie Posters of China

From Qihoo Picture: “Sound Of Youth(ÈùíÊò•‰πãÊ≠å)” was made in 1959 by Cui Wei and Chen Huaikai of Beijing Film Studio(Âåó‰∫¨ÁîµÂΩ±Âà∂ÁâáÂéÇ), who put Yang Mo’sÔºàÊù®Ê≤´Ôºâsame-name novel onto the silver screen. The movie could be seen as the gift of 10-year anniversary of People’s Republic. The story is about Lin Daojing, a young college girl from a […]

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Photo Series: Beijing Hutongs

From I am Hutongs blog via Fengniao: Hutong is one of the symbols of Beijing’s traditional culture, and a life style, a history and an art. Blogger I am Hutongs posted a lot of vivid photos to memorialize hutongs.

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Monument for ‘Super Girls’ Stirs Controversy – Xinhua News Agency

From Xinhua News Agency: A monument depicting two of China’s “Super Girl” pop singers, in a style similar to those of revolutionary heroes, at a Beijing art festival has caused wide public debate. The four-meter-high monument featuring Li Yuchun and Zhou Bichang, champion and runner-up of perhaps the country’s most successful all-girl singing contest “Super […]

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China: Youth, too much free time – John Kennedy

From Global Voices Online: There are many counties in China. To have never heard of a certain country is of course nothing strange. Shanxi‘s Fangshan county, for example, which I’ve never heard of. But recently this county’s Party Committee Secretary Zhang Guobiao has come up with a new iron ricebowl-type policy which, under the camouflage […]

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Chubby Shanghai boy gaining online fame – China Daily

From China Daily via Xinhua News Agency: A baby-faced chubby Shanghai student called Xiao Pang(Â∞èËÉñ), or “cherub” in English, is gaining online fame as his satiric images proliferate across the Web. Netizens at home and abroad have digitally morphed a photograph of the 100 kilogram boy’s face into images of Harry Potter, Mona Lisa and […]

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