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.
China cracked down six protesters who were showing a banner reading “One World, One Dream, Free Tibet 2008.” on the Great Wall. From AP via IHT: China has deported a group of activists who hung a banner on the Great...
Read MoreMa Jun reports for Chinadialogue that “in today’s China, introducing green GDP calculations may be the cheapest of the practical options to achieve that end. ” With China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) indicating there is no way green GDP data can be made public, and the report from the main green GDP study group […]
Read MoreJonathan Watts writes a report for Guardian Unlimited that Ai Weiwei, the well-known architectural designer of China, and the artist “who behind Beijing’s spectacular new Olympic stadium,” refuses to “do with the propaganda for which it will be used during next year’s games.” In an attack on the “disgusting” political conditions in the one-party state, […]
Read MoreFrom the Wall Street Journal: The opening ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games may be a year away, but authorities are already fretting about what to do if it rains on their roofless stadium. So Zhang Qiang, head of Beijing’s Office of Weather Manipulation, has been firing chemical-laced rockets at rain clouds. He hopes […]
Read MoreYao Ming, China’s biggest sports celebrity, married Ye Li, a member of the national women’s basketball team, yesterday at the Shangri-La in Shanghai. From BBC News: …Their relationship has captivated the Chinese media, and speculation about the wedding ceremony has been rife in recent weeks. It reached fever pitch after the two were spotted posing […]
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