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 The Times Of India (link): For years, gifting of “golden books” have remained a popular form of social exchange as well as bribery in China. The Chinese government has finally clamped down on the production and sale of such books made of gold and silver foils. Much like the Indian practise of presenting gold […]
Read MoreFrom The Standard (link): Irish Nobel laureate Samuel Beckett’s play, Waiting for Godot, has been performed in China before, but never with elements taken from traditional Peking Opera – including dance, mime, music and song. Playing to a full house in Shanghai, one character wore a painted mask lifted straight from Peking Opera, a highly […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited (link): There is an intriguing battle between the forces of commerce and politics in the Chinese art world, and Dashanzi is slap-bang in the middle. Artists, curators and gallery owners generally hate talking about such worldly matters, but they are often caught between communism and capitalism, the authorities and the market, the […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters (link): Peng Shan, a spirited 21-year-old Beijing design student, changes her cellphone’s ringback tones as often as people change clothes, part of a growing fad that’s delivering piles of cash to China’s mobile carriers. “They reflect my feelings,” she said cheerfully in a phone interview. “I choose a lively pop song when I’m […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua News Agency (link): China’s property market is in danger of overheating, experts have warned, after figures showed more than 17 percent of disposable income was spent on housing in 2005. Ministry of Construction figures showed consumers spent 1.42 trillion yuan (177.5 billion US dollars) in buying homes last year. The National Bureau of […]
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