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 New America Media (link): Hu Shuli, editor of the Beijing-based Caijing Magazine, says without fail she is asked some version of the same question each time she travels abroad. “What is taboo for Chinese journalists?” “Foreign journalists pay too much attention to what is taboo in China” Hu says. “We don’t pay attention to […]
Read MoreFrom China Confidential Blog (link): China completed construction Saturday of a great new wall–the main span of the giant Three Gorges Dam, which is designed to power Shanghai and other cities on the booming eastern seaboard. The project’s pedigree is impressive. Chinese Nationalist leader Sun Yat-Sen first proposed building a giant dam to tame the […]
Read MoreFrom Guerrilla News Network (link) via ESWN blog: A mob of angry Chinese students protested at Massey University yesterday after Chairman Mao was lampooned on the cover of the student newspaper. Students likened the cover of Chaff, which this week satirises women’s magazine Cosmopolitan, to the anti-Muslim cartoons circulated around the world in February. Students […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited (link): A journalism watchdog has voiced concern over the International Olympic Committee‘s attitude to press freedom in China ahead of the 2008 games in Beijing. The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists said the IOC must look more carefully at the guarantees made by the Chinese government. “Our colleagues in China tell […]
Read MoreFrom Asian Times Online (link): From high up in the misty Song Mountains of central China’s Henan province, the Shaolin monastery and its kung fu monks have held a peculiar fascination across the centuries. Shrouded in a swirl of myth and mystery, the temple’s fame has long crossed Chinese borders thanks to Hollywood and Jet […]
Read More
Click on the image to download Firefly for circumvention
CDT is a non-profit media site, and we need your support. Your contribution will help us provide more translations, breaking news, and other content you love.
