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: Famed comedy filmmaker Feng Xiaogang doesn’t want to be typecast as a director of light fare. So he has made “The Banquet,” a tragedy blockbuster of martial arts, murder, revenge and romance. Reviews, however, are mixed…. The action-packed film, with a budget of 150 million yuan (US$18.75 million), depicts the royal power […]
Read MoreFrom China.org: More than 6 million pirated items had been confiscated by Chinese police by the end of August as part of a 100-day crackdown on piracy, according to the Ministry of Public Security yesterday. Local police had raided more than 32,000 publication markets and distribution businesses and closed down 355 companies engaged in the […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited: For a director who has just been slapped with a five-year film-making ban, Lou Ye(®ÑÁÉ®) appears remarkably unperturbed as he describes how he was hauled before the Chinese censors last Friday for a dressing-down that made headlines around the world. “I thought there would be some trouble, though not this bad,” he […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghai Daily: Wedding season is heating up again. Wedding reception host Yan Yi said he is already fully booked for the National Day holiday period. “Way too many couples are getting married this year,” said Yan. “I’ve never seen anything like it since I started this job.” There will be more weddings in October […]
Read MoreFrom Sina.com: This oil painting, named “Nanjing massacre“, consists of three parts–“slaughter”, “rebirth” and “Buddha”. The main part of the painting is the mountain of bodies. The left part, “slaughter,” shows two Japanese military officers standing with a smile and one of them rubbing blood off the sword. The middle part, “rebirth,” shows a child […]
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