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 MSNBC (link): The woman who heckled Chinese President Hu Jintao during a White House ceremony last week says her action was a matter of life and death. Wang Wenyi said Wednesday she could not pass up an opportunity to confront Hu and President Bush over claims that China is removing organs from living members […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post (link): A Chinese Internet writer has been charged with attempting to “subvert state power” for backing a movement by exiled dissidents to hold free elections for a new democratic government, his lawyer said on Thursday. Yang Tianshui, 45, faces up to 15 years in prison for posting essays on the Internet […]
Read MoreFrom The Christian Science Monitor (link): Chinese modern art has been pushing the borders of the acceptable. But just as limits seemed to fall, the local culture police struck back, albeit politely. Three galleries at the chic Dashanzi art area were told to remove more than 20 paintings in recent weeks, all with political themes. […]
Read MoreFrom MSNBC (link): When Beijing film producer James Wang Zhonglei ran into his old friend Zhang Ziyi at Cannes last May, he told the Chinese actress that he had a big “headache” because he didn’t have a leading lady for his new film, “The Banquet.” His first choice was Gong Li, Zhang’s costar from “Memoirs […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua News Agency (link): To blog or not to blog Is that a question for you? Despite a huge influx of participants, the blogosphere in China is experiencing a small “counter-current” of quitters, spearheaded by celebrity bloggers. In early March, Bai Ye, a renowned literary critic, closed his blog on Sina.com.cn after days of […]
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