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 Blog (link): Last week Skype‘s Jaanus Kase posted an interview with Kevin (surname not given) from Skype’s new Chinese partner, Tom Online. It’s a fairly lightweight and content-free interview for the most part (one question: “what’s the weather like in China?”). The conversation makes no mention of the fact that Tom’s chat censorship […]
Read MoreFrom China Media Project (link): Fang Li, producer: “It’s not necessary for a record of the film’s recommendation [for the Palm d’Or] to be made [with SARFT] because the recommendation was made by the film’s foreign distributor, Wild Bunch, and not a mainland producer.” (The Mirror, Ê≥ïÂà∂ÊôöÊä•, May 15) Nai An (•àÂÆâ), producer: “We will […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua News Agency (link): China’s Ministry of Education warned Monday that there are now less than one percent of the five million professional Chinese-as-a-second-language teachers that are expected to be needed over the next five years. The number of foreigners learning Chinese around the world is expected to hit 100 million in 2010, according […]
Read MoreFrom VOA (link): Huang Rui, an artist and one of the organizers of the festival, says certain themes are off limits. “Some officials don’t like artworks with themes of leaders since Mao, or thoughts of the leaders, or the Tiananmen Incident,” Huang says. “These, for them, are very sensitive. In fact, these factors are like […]
Read MoreFrom Global Voices Online (link): Things have definitely been getting worse for users of MSN services in China since Microsoft recently shifted its Passport login process to Live.com. Following Global Voices Online blogger Frank Dai’s post on this problem two weeks ago, a number of MSN Messenger, Hotmail and MSN Spaces users have started speaking […]
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