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 Comingsoon Net (link): Ang Lee has pacted to make his second consecutive film, following his Academy Award win for directing Brokeback Mountain, with Focus Features. Lee will next direct Lust, Caution(Ëâ≤Êàí), an espionage thriller set in WWII-era Shanghai. Bill Kong, who previously produced Lee’s hit Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon(ÂçßËôéËóèÈæô), will produce the new film […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily (link): There was a time in China when a bride, who might have been 16 years old, didn’t see her betrothed’s face until his anxious hands removed her silken red veil on their wedding night. These days, wealthy Chinese urbanites are doing no such thing. As karaoke bars sprout up on seemingly […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua News Agency (link): The auction of a portrait of Chairman Mao Zedong was cancelled on Friday after the owner said he might donate it to a Chinese museum. The painting, owned by a Chinese American, was expected to fetch 1-1.2 million yuan (US$120,000-150,000) at the upcoming auction in Beijing. But the plan led […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited (link): When China’s economic miracle caught up with Mrs Wang’s cabbage patch, she was having her hair done in a neighbouring village – too far away to hear the township official’s bellowed orders, “You have one hour to harvest your crops and then the bulldozers move in.” So by the time she […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters (link): Shanghai’s historic Bund waterfront Peace Hotel(ÂíåÂπ≥È•≠Â∫ó), where Noel Coward wrote “Private Lives“, has been illegally daubed with red Chinese characters by a crew filming a romantic movie, a state newspaper said on Friday. It is not the first film crew to run into trouble with the Chinese authorities. Earlier this month, China […]
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