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 Global Voices Online (link): A strange custom of every Communist Party of China leader is for them to come up with their own theory or “ism”. Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping had their own respective variations of Socialist theory. Jiang Zemin has his Three Represents. And what about the current Chinese president Hu Jintao? […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited (link): It is an anniversary that China wants to forget. Today marks 40 years since the start of the cultural revolution, one of the most insane episodes of the 20th century when children turned on parents, pupils tyrannised teachers and hundreds of thousands died in the name of class war. The government […]
Read MoreFrom Wu Zuolai’s Blog, translated by Global Voices Online (link): Why is there such a vital market for Marxism in China and other poverty-stricken countries? Because Marxism puts the rich into a class towards which it is perfectly justifiable for the poor to be hostile, to overthrow; a class that exploits and oppresses the people, […]
Read MoreFrom Mindmeters Blog (link), translated by Global Voices Online (link): Now all the people said the programs at Hunan TV (A provincial level TV) is much better than CCTV. The reasons behind it can be found at Wangxiaofeng’s Blog. CCTV does not only produce rubbish programs but also attack its competitors with third-rated techniques. When […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times (link): THE first fitting of “The First Emperor’s” new clothes was outsourced from New York to China last month in an unusual workshop for the most expensive and complex opera the Metropolitan Opera has ever commissioned. Workshops for new operas are typically held with singers around a piano, and there […]
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