Sophie Beach is CDT's Operations and Communications Manager. From 2003-2021, she served as Executive Editor of CDT English. She lives in Berkeley, California.
Another article about the ways in which Chinese netizens use the Internet to express themselves, despite the government controls. The Guardian report includes a short video which features an interview with CDT’s Xiao...
Read MoreAsia Sentinel looks at reforms at the China Development Bank: Approval should come soon for the 14-year-old bank to list on the stock market in the first half of this year, and it should quickly become both a major lender to the...
Read MoreIn the Atlantic, James Fallows writes about the Great Firewall and its limitations: Depending on how you look at it, the Chinese government’s attempt to rein in the Internet is crude and slapdash or ingenious and well crafted....
Read MoreThe New York Times reviews an exhibit currently at the China Institute in New York of Chinese shadow puppets: Long before the invention of film the Chinese developed a remarkable art form of moving images. Shadow puppets, made...
Read MoreSlate Magazine looks at how modern urban Chinese celebrate the New Year, without many of the rituals and traditions of the past: While Chinatowns in America host flashy parades this month, city folk inside the People’s...
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