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 Guardian Unlimited (link): Blogging for this year’s Dashanzi festival has made me appreciate this more strongly than ever. So, as a final post, a few self-critical thoughts inspired by two of the less celebrated exhibitions: Removing the Ladder at Platform China and Satirist and Catcher at Anni Studio. …It is a kind of freedom, […]
Read MoreFrom Eastsouthwestnorth Blog (link): Everybody knows that 2008 Beijing is where the Olympics will be. Westerners call it the Olympic Games. There is a game in this oil painting, but it is the traditional Chinese game of mahjong. On the top left corner of “2008-Beijing,” there is a standard head portrait of a man. He […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily (link): Playing wallflowers on the big or small screen seems to be an enjoyable way of making some money, but those wanting to be extras must be prepared for more intense competition and exploitation than in most jobs. Yao Haidong sports a haircut that makes him stand out in a throng of […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited (link): Being an opposition candidate in a one-party state was never going to be easy, but Feng Qiusheng took more of a risk than most when he decided to run for the People’s Congress in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong. This was not just because his previous attempt to defend human […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghai Daily (link): It’s a long overdue work: Shanghai movie buffs have been waiting for three years to see “Jasmine Women(ËåâËéâËä±ÂºÄ),” the directorial debut from famous Chinese mainland cinematographer Hou Yong, at local cinemas. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Seventh Shanghai International Film Festival in 2004, the acclaimed film, which begins […]
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