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 Danwei: The latest incident to outrage China’s Internet users is being dubbed ‘Toiletgate’ (ÂéïÊâÄÈó®) by some Chinese fourm posters. A Taiwanese model named Meng Guangmei (Â≠üÂπøÁæé) who came to the Mainland ten years ago and built a career as a TV presenter and entertainer was invited to be a guest on Taiwanese talk show […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited: On the northern outskirts of Beijing, an army of migrant workers is twisting and welding a 100,000-tonne tangle of steel into a stadium-sized bird’s nest. A short sprint away, the scaffold wrapping of a vast swimming centre has been partly peeled away to reveal a translucent bubble-like coating. Everywhere thickets of cranes […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Director Lou Ye(®ÑÁÉ®) has been banned from making films in China for five years for submitting an entry for the Cannes festival without government approval. Lou entered romance Summer Palace for competition without clearing it with China’s censors, state media reported. The film, which features explicit sex scenes, takes place around the […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua News Agency: A Chinese director has released a new film — to critical acclaim in China — which he claims will redress misrepresentations of Japanese war crimes during World War II. “Tokyo Trial(‰∏ú‰∫¨ÂÆ°Âà§)” recounts the court proceedings against 28 top Japanese war criminals at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East after […]
Read MoreFrom CRI online: This picture is the Sept. 13, 1963 cover of Time magazine. Headlined “Red China, An Arrogant Outcast”, it portrays a lot of problems in China. On the top of the boat are Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi, Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping. In the very crowded, patched dragon boat, people uphold banners reading […]
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