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.

Trying to understand 恶搞文化 spoofing culture in Virtual China РVirtual China

From Virtual China: Traveling in China brings me into closer contact with the English-language edition of China Daily, which published an interesting opinion piece last week titled “Parody Can Help People Ease Work Pressure”. It describes the emerging “spoofing culture” ÊÅ∂ÊêûÊñáÂåñ of contemporary Chinese Internet creativity. “Egao” ÊÅ∂Êêû is a neologism that the Chinese media […]

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Why commemorate the Tangshan earthquake? – Joel Martinsen

From Danwei: From today’s perspective, the entire course of the Tangshan earthquake lacks one essential record that disasters of this type must have: detailed, objective news reports. Circulating today are mostly reminiscences of the so-called Tangshan earthquake survivors. Perhaps you may say, didn’t the People’s Daily and the Xinhua News Agency have reporters on the […]

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China’s first culture e-zine launched – Jeff Pan

From ChinaCulture.org: Nihao from China , an electronic magazine dedicated to Chinese culture, was recently launched by Chinadaily.com.cn. It is by far the first English e-zine on Chinese culture in China. The magazine brings a new experience for the culture aficionados with its advanced and massive use of latest technologies, animations, videos, audios, and exquisite […]

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Chinese Pet Mating – Michael Zhao

From Forbes: Pet doctor Zhan Yaoming often had to hide his dog when he started raising his first pet eight years ago in China. There were dog curfews and regular inspections, called “strike-hards,” in Chinese cities, due to popular paranoia about rabies, barking and biting, as well as sanitary concerns. For decades, China had been […]

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Don’t Hand Me That Gu Ge – Michael Zhao

From Forbes: Google (nasdaq: GOOG – news – people ) caught flak when it caved in to pressure by China’s government censors to filter Web search results. Yahoo (nasdaq: YHOO – news – people ), MSN and all of the Chinese search services play ball with censors, too. Despite that and despite the fact that […]

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