Sophia Cao

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.

Photo series: A 3-year-old girl’s life

From Nogo8.com: The girl is only three. This age is to be spoiled by parents, but she needs to earn money on the street with kid show. The boy is six or seven. Asked whether they have parents and whether they go to school, they said no. [Click to see]

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Media Schizophrenia in China – David Moser

From Danwei blog: Some rather astonishing changes took place in the Chinese media landscape in the 1990s with the advent of digital technology and the sudden availability of a vast number of bootleg foreign entertainment disks. The rapid and chaotic influx of so much foreign material into average Chinese homes caught the Chinese government off […]

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China: Money’s on the TV – Lian Yue

From Lian Yue blog, translated by Global Voices Online: China must just be one of the countries with the most televistion stations in the world, and at the same time has an audience with the least choice. Just take the remote control and flip through (if you find yourself so bored) and you will find […]

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New Olympic icons – Jeremy Goldkorn

From Danwei: The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG) has released its newly designed set of icons to represent each sport. From the BOCOG press release: Named “the beauty of seal characters” and with strokes of seal characters as their basic form, the Pictograms of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games integrate pictographic charm […]

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Photo series: Scarlet river

From Nogo8.com: The following series photos are of Xiujiang reach (about 40 kilometers) at Rongxian county between Rongcheng city and Ziliang city, Guangxi Province. The redness in the river is from about 170 paper plants in the county, which are the backbone industry in this area. [original Chinese text and more pictures]

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