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 Shanghai Daily: It’s been another deadly year so far for China’s coal miners – though not as deadly as 2005. And for officials who invested in coal mines and colluded with owners to ignore safety violations, the first eight months of 2006 have put hundreds under investigation. Mine accidents in China killed 2,900 people […]
Read MoreFrom Global Voices Online: …My experience is that the objects of National Security (NS) work far exceed the Wikipedia definition. The cases of NS harassment and infringement of which I’m aware cover a very wide scope. Some social group workers, volunteers, lawyers, painters, photographers or independent documentarians, artists, freelancers, reporters, writers, poets, scholars, student society […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: Every weekday this summer, Rose Lei drove her daughter, Angelina, 5, to a golf complex at the edge of central Shanghai for a two-hour, $200 individual lesson with a teaching pro from Scotland. But now that the school year has started, little Angelina will have to cut back on the […]
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Read MoreFrom Danwei blog: Danwei noted last year that some Beijing residents were agitating to change the common place-name Âùü, “grave”, to something similar-sounding but less morbid, or at least more cultured, like ‘mausoleum’. This sort of image improvement has been going on in Beijing for centuries, writes the Mirror in an article that examines streets […]
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