Sophie Beach lives in Berkeley, California. She previously served as senior research associate for Asia at the
Committee to Protect Journalists, a New York-based press freedom organization. She received her master's degree from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. Her writing about China has been published in the
Los Angeles Times, the
Asian Wall Street Journal, the South China Morning Post,
The Nation magazine, and other publications.
Edward Wong at the New York Times looks at how the crackdown on the sex trade in Dongguan, Guangdong Province has impacted the local economy:
“In Dongguan, we have something called Dongguan-style service,” the young man with dyed brown hair said as he sat in a hotel restaurant, agreeing to speak on the condition that only his English nickname be used. “It’s the sex capital.
March 7, 2014 12:10 PM
