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 Letters from China: Much popular literature about China, such as Jung Chang‘s recent biography of Mao, makes it seem as though China did little after the communist revolution in 1949 but lurch from one disaster to another. In fact, China’s national income under a planned economy grew fivefold between 1952 and 1978. Though wages […]
Read MoreFrom Rconversation: Some good news and some bad news about Skype censorship in China. Since I last wrote about how Skype has admitted without apology that it allows its Chinese partner, TOM Online, to censor user chats with the joint Chinese-language TOM-Skype client, a lot of people have been downloading and testing the TOM-Skype client […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghai Daily: Famed for his comedy films, Feng Xiaogang‘s latest movie “The Banquet” is a big budget affair, a Chinese Hamlet, and the popular director has high hopes it will take him to the very top, writes Xu Wei. Fans are eagerly anticipating the release of veteran Chinese director Feng Xiaogang’s epic new drama, […]
Read MoreFrom One Man Bandwidth Blog: In China, as in many Asian countries, the name of the school you graduate from is permanent tattooed on your career. Your salary, your mobility and the perception of your abilities are often forcibly tied to the reputation or ranking of your college. …So, it is easy to see why […]
Read MoreFrom China Media Project: Once we move administratively above the Beijing municipal party committee to national party papers with a commercial interest in the Liu Zhihua story, the differences become more pronounced. The image below is the cover of Jinghua Times, a commercial spin-off of the official mouthpiece, People’s Daily, that started off our analysis. […]
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