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 China Daily via Xinhua News Agency: As for a comedy, there is no higher praise and honour than a remark like “the movie is laughable” when the viewers walk out of the cinema, he concluded. Many viewers attributed the suspense, funny dialogue and vivid characters to the success of “Crazy Stone (ÁñØÁãÇÁöÑÁü≥§¥).” Regarded as […]
Read MoreFrom Forbes: Over the past 18 months, the Chinese government has instituted a substantial cultural diplomacy program, the establishment of Confucius Institutes, which offer Chinese language teaching for foreigners. With 100 institutes planned worldwide by 2010, they constitute a powerful element of the “soft power” China seeks to build as part of its development of […]
Read MoreFrom Danwei: Dazhalan§ßʆÖʆè (pronounced da shi lan’r in Beijing) is an alleyway and the area around it just southwest of Tiananmen Square. Since the Ming Dynasty, it has housed shops, inns and hotels, theaters and brothels. Some of the theaters and shops (such as Tongrentang PharmacyÔºàÂê剪ņÇÔºâ have been operating in the same building for more […]
Read MoreFrom Global Voices Online: Regarding ‘click count’. It seems everyone agrees that ‘click count’ is the internet’s way of speaking. With the special nature of the internet’s scope and spread, creating a ‘hot spot’ is quite easy given all the unsavory characters to be found. But blogs also have their own special nature in that […]
Read MoreFrom FT via MSNBC: Las Vegas Sands is planning to invest more than $8bn in its casino, leisure and convention facilities in Macao and on a neighbouring island over the next four to six years. The size of the investment, double that reported originally, is part of the US-based gaming company’s plans to change the […]
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