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 Rconversation: Some Chinese bloggers are so mad that their internet service providers have been blocking Google.com over the past week or so, they’ve resorted to cyber-voodoo:The text on the top left says: “This person has made it impossible to access Google.” The text on the bottom right says: “A click on this website equals […]
Read MoreFrom Danwei: The new issue of AdAge China is online. Two items of interest: – A profile of Sam Flemming, CIC Data founder and accidental China Daily contributor; – A column by China ad agency veteran Larry Rinaldi, in which he describes his anguish after watching a week of May 1 holiday week TV, “surfing […]
Read MoreFrom Global Voices Online: As with many mainstays of Chinese Communist Party infrastructure, the surreally socialist China Central Television (CCTV) faces an increasingly uphill battle against non-Party competitors. Viewers are increasingly drawn to privately-run television stations which dare to air many stories authorities would rather see ignored. Factor in the growing numbers of”urban, educated”Chinese who […]
Read MoreFrom Chief Asian Inspector: Every two minutes somewhere in China, a woman has cosmetic surgery to give her Western double eyelids. It is now a $3 billion business, divided among 1 million plastic surgery clinics employing 6 million people. Hilariously, Beijing hosted the first “Miss Artificial Beauty” for “manmade beauties” in 2004 – contestants included […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Authorities have released a Chinese lawyer jailed for helping evicted Shanghai residents seek compensation, but an official crackdown on petitioners has become worse, a human rights group said. Zheng Enchong was set free on Monday after serving a three-year sentence at Shanghai’s Tilanqiao prison on charges of “illegally obtaining state secrets”, the New […]
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