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 BBC News: China’s biggest oil company CNPC has reached a deal with Sudan to search for oil and gas in the north of the country on the coast of the Red Sea. The exploration will be carried out jointly with the Indonesian state oil and gas company PT Pertamina. China has been under pressure […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua via Shanghai Daily: Three decades ago when Hong Kong was still under British rule, English and Cantonese were the most popular languages in the territory. It was during that time that Cheung Dan, a Beijing linguistic scholar, established a Mandarin school there, vowing to teach Hong Kong people Mandarin….[Full Text]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: When one of China’s top leaders in charge of the country’s architectural landscape recently berated Chinese cities for their breathless rush towards modernity, none deserved the reprimand more than Shanghai. This most forward-looking city in China is in a quandary. Driven by its overpowering desire to modernize, Shanghai wants to forge a […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: In strategic groupings, India and United States are seen as being partners to dilute the influence of China. Recent events only underline such assertions. Suspicions refuse to die as far as India and China are concerned. Recently declassified Central Intelligence Agency documents detail what the US saw as Chinese deception and […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: Ghost stories might have been recently exorcised from bookshelves by Chinese censors for the horror they inflict on the public, but equally grisly tales of “ghost wives” have been unfolding in real life. When Shen Wentang, a peasant from central China’s Hebei province, bought a “ghost wife” for his dead father, he […]
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