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 AP via the Los Angeles Times (link): In a five-story factory nearly the size of three football fields, technicians clad in spacesuit-like attire work around the clock producing silicon chips at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. The company, the world’s largest contract chip maker, is a source of pride in Taiwan. It’s what people point […]
Read MoreEditorial from the New York Times (link): The public derision of Republicans’ idea for a $100 gasoline rebate has focused on the desperate political pandering embodied in the proposal. But there’s another view that makes it seem even worse. Consider the China angle. With the nation already deeply in debt – and with Congress angling […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post (link): The death toll in a coal mine explosion in northwest China rose to 30 on Monday as more bodies were recovered, the government said. Another two miners remained missing after the blast Saturday afternoon at the Wayaobao Coal Mine in Shaanxi province, the official Xinhua News Agency said. Thirty-nine miners […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua News Agency (link): The Chinese government will not slacken its family planning law enforcement and will continue to punish those who break it, a senior Chinese family planning official has warned. Zhang Weiqing, director of the National Population and Family Planning Commission, said in an interview with the “Qiushi” (Seeking Truth From Facts) […]
Read MoreFrom The Independent (link): Red Flag-waving Chinese soldiers, muscle-bound peasants, nudes, dancing girls and women soldiers, and scores of Mao Zedong pictures, sculptures and photographs. Whatever would the Great Helmsman have thought? China’s Cultural Revolution, which began 40 years ago this month, is the theme of this year’s Dashanzi International Arts Festival in Beijing. Much […]
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