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 The Age: Cloud Gate Dance Theatre(‰∫ëÈó®ËàûÈõÜ), the legendary Taiwanese company, returns to Melbourne this week with its much feted Songs of the Wanderers, the work that is closest to the heart of its founder, Lin Hwai-min. “It’s a very special work,” Lin says. “It marks the turning point of my life and creative career.” […]
Read MoreFrom Los Angeles Times via The Seattle Times: In Taiwan, ghosts are rarely a laughing matter. On TV, in conversation, at temples and in the recesses of the unconscious, they maintain a grip on island society. Taiwanese are ghost-crazy, or rather, crazy to avoid them. A recent survey of Taipei college students found 87 percent […]
Read MoreFrom AP via China Environmental News Digest: China has budgeted some $162 billion for environmental protection in 2006-2010. At the same time, its more than 600 big cities are belatedly tackling long-neglected sewage treatment and searching for ways to restore depleted aquifers and purify tainted rivers and lakes. The country’s 27-year-old economic boom has left […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: The death toll from a tropical storm that pummeled southern China rose to 523 on Saturday as the central government dispatched a team of investigators to assess the full scope of the disaster and to determine whether local authorities had deliberately understated the number of dead. The team sent by […]
Read MoreFrom San Francisco Chronicle: When a painting by the early 20th century Chinese artist Xu Beihong(ÂæêÊÇ≤È∏ø) fetched 33 million yuan ($4.1 million) at an auction earlier this summer, the news made the front page of the China Daily. It was the highest amount ever paid for a Chinese oil painting. The buyer was an unnamed […]
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