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 CRI online: This is Sept. 23, 1985 cover of Time magazine, headlined “China Moving Away From Marx.” It compares the different life styles in Mao‘s and Deng‘s times. The left shows demonstrators upholding portrait of Marx and peasants planting rice seedlings. The right illustrates busy office workers, high-rise buildings, hamburgers, cameras, etc. [Click to […]
Read MoreFrom CRI English via Xinhua News Agency: Chinese director Jia Zhangke‘sÔºàË¥æÊ®üÊüØԺ⠓Sanxia HaorenÔºà‰∏âÂ≥°Â•Ω‰∫∫Ժ┠(Still Life) was screened at Venice Film Festival Wednesday. Besides, Jia’s another film “DongÔºà‰∏úԺ┠has also been included in Horizons session at the festival. “Still Life” was shot in the old village of Fengjie, which has been destroyed by the building of […]
Read MoreFrom New America Media: As China continues its economic transformation and materialism runs rampant, acclaimed Chinese director Zhang Yimou offers an antidote to big city distractions. In his new film “Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (ÂçÉÈáå˵∞ÂçïÈ™ë),” Zhang returns to his spare, emotional palette with a focus on human relationships. He offers a glimpse into […]
Read MoreFrom China Dialogue: China’s national strategy to develop the country’s western region has led to great progress, but the gap between eastern and western China is still increasing, said Wang Jinxiang, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission. Statistics show that the GDP generated by the country’s western region in 2005 doubled since […]
Read MoreFrom UPI: What one generally regards as modern China and its pollution-belching factories dotting the landscape hardly seems to have room for the nostalgic notion of a Shangri-la. Do not forget the ancient and the future reside side-by-side in China. In Beijing and eastern China in general it is not uncommon to go for days […]
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