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 Picture China: The official party line is that 70% of what Mao Zedong did was right and 30% was wrong. This pretty much sums up the ambiguity with which most modern Chinese see their often criticized former leader. His detractors condemn him as a mass-murderer who was responsible for the deaths of millions of […]
Read MoreFrom 163.com, translated by CDT: On Sep 27, 10 urban administration officers in Dongguan went to Shangjiangcheng village to kill stray dogs, and led to a local villagers’ riot. The administrators beat 7-8 dogs to death in 5 minutes. They put the dogs onto the trash in the truck. The blood dyed the ground, frightening […]
Read MoreFrom Letters from China: Dominoes left to right: Chen Liangyu, Huang Ju, Jiang Zemin Search “ȪÑËèä” (Huang Ju) with Baidu or Google.cn and you will probably see either an error message or a blank page. It appears that Chinese search engines are ordered to ban “Huang Ju” again. “Huang Ju” had been banned earlier this […]
Read MoreFrom Coffee blog: This mother, who lives in Chongming county of Kunming city, lost her son, Zhao Zhanying, 20 years ago during the Sino-Vietnamese War. Twenty years later, she saw her son’s tomb for the first time at Yunnan Martyr’s cemetery with the help of her son’s comrade in the army. She didn’t have the […]
Read MoreAn old couple eating bananas via flickr.com
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