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 AP via The Washington Post: There’s more to Chinese culture than lanterns and opera, says film director Zhang Yimou _ and he plans to prove it at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Zhang, chief director for the opening and closing ceremonies, says he hopes to use lesser-known Chinese elements. Zhang says the ceremonies will show […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: In 1971 Andy Warhol is said to have made the deadpan observation that “since fashion is art now, and Chinese is in fashion, I could make a lot of money.” A year later he produced a series of 10 large hand-painted and silk-screened canvases of Mao with such bright brushstrokes […]
Read MoreFrom IOL.co.za: One hundred lonely Shanghai dogs will have a chance to find their ideal mates at a dog-dating event hosted by China’s first professional online pet matchmaking company, the Shanghai Daily said on Thursday. The event, later this month, is organised by gougou520.com, which will try to match the pooches with the perfect partners […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: A South Korean hit film has been banned from cinemas in China because of its homosexual subtext. Censors also decided against passing The King and the ClownÔºàÁéãÁöÑÁî∑‰∫∫Ôºâ due to sexually explicit language, distributors CJ Entertainment told Reuters news agency. The film, which implies a love triangle involving a 16th Century king and […]
Read MoreFrom Global Voices Online: It’s something impossible to predict. If this system doesn’t change, if there is no democratization, then it’ll be just like I said when we were commemorating Mr. Hu Yaobang“we were commemorating him, not mythologizing him”it would be impossible for China’s politics to be put straight by just one person. To think […]
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