The Voice of China voices changes
Season 4 of “The Voice of China” (TVOC) is back. In 2012, the show launched its first season in China. It soon created frenzy for both audiences and producers, as…
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Summer in China propels students forward in fluency
Vassar students participated in the Qingdao Program in China to improve their Chinese skills. The program offers three credits over the course of the summer and is equivalent to third-year…
Ye’s latest explores beauty through chaos
Lou Ye is a famous screenwriter and director commonly grouped with the “Sixth Generation” directors of Chinese cinema from the post-1990 era. His latest film, Blind Massage was nominated for…
Vassar News Briefs 4/24/14
Lecture by Harry Wu On Tuesday, April 22, political activist Harry Wu gave a lecture sponsored by the Asian Students Alliance (ASA) and Amnesty International. “This lecture came about…
China Moonshot revives ethical spaceflight debate
Rather than discussing the hot topic of the moment—Thanksgiving and cultural appropriation—I’d like to talk about China, which has been out of the news a little bit lately. It has…
Outside the Bubble
Marijuana legalization increases in popularity Studies show that marijuana is a very popular illicit recreational drug, with nearly 17 million Americans age 12 and older reporting use in the past…
Boland illuminates Chinese urbanization
On Monday September 16, University of Toronto Professor of Geography Alana Boland came to Vassar to give a lecture entitled “Both Spectacular and Mundane: The Greening of Urban China.” This…
Remnants of colonialism plague Chinese economy
Most countries in East Asia, especially those in Southeast Asia, were built from two related forces: migration and colonialism. The former implied a large dispersion of citizens from Central Asia…
Economic growth in China creates political challenges
Formerly described by Napoleon Bonaparte as a “sleeping giant,” China has in recent decades awoken from its slumber of isolation and economic stagnation to take its place at the forefront…