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 VOA News: For years, experts have warned of the giant dust bowl that is forming in northwestern China. Overgrazing, overuse of land, and drought have created what some agronomists say is the world’s biggest transformation of productive land into desert. Official estimates say the deserts, advancing by thousands of square kilometers a year, now […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily via China Net: The revival of martial arts films in recent years is the result of increasing commercialism in the Chinese film industry, says Jia Leilei, director of the culture strategy research centre at the China Academy of Art. There were only a handful of martial arts films among the total 260 […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghai Daily: The Chinese equivalent of Valentine’s Day, the Qi Xi Festival (‰∏ɧï), will be marked twice this year, one at the end of this month and then again at the end of August, due to a quirk in the lunar calender. The event, also known as Double Seventh Day, is celebrated on the […]
Read MoreFrom AP via China Environmental News Digest: On a mountaintop overlooking the Pacific Ocean, Steven Cliff collects evidence of an industrial revolution taking place thousands of miles away. The tiny, airborne particles Cliff gathers at an air monitoring station just north of San Francisco drifted over the ocean from coal-fired power plants, smelters, dust storms […]
Read MoreFrom Wenxuecity, translated and carried by ESWN: The following story was found at Wenxue City, but its origins are uncertain. Was this a commercial project? a school project? a public service announcement? or a personal diary? Well, it doesn’t matter really. If this was a true event, it was a positive thing; if this was […]
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