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.
For China Media Project, David Bandurski writes about the frequently-heard argument that Chinese people aren’t interested in politics and don’t have much use for democracy: If I had a jiao for every time someone’s told me the Chinese don’t care about politics or democracy, I’d have enough chunk change to fund an American presidential campaign. […]
Read MoreJeremy Goldkorn of Danwei reflects on the recent Chinese Bloggers Conference, and includes links to several other blog posts on the topic: The event was organized completely by volunteers. It drew together hundreds of people from highly diverse backgrounds for a weekend of discussions covering everything from freedom of speech and the responsibilities of bloggers […]
Read MoreChina Rises blog comments on the high-profile corruption trial now underway in Macau: It took prosecutors five hours Monday to read the 76 counts against Ao Man-long, the sacked secretary of transport and public works, who is accused of taking kickbacks from construction contracts and land sales as well as fast-tracking development of casinos. …But […]
Read MoreOn his Beijing Newspeak blog, Chris O’Brien explains how Xinhua crafted a story about the demolition of Beijing University’s Sanjiaodi (Triangle Area), which had been a rallying point for protesters in 1989, without mentioning 1989: The boards served as the hub of student discontent during the Tiananmen democracy protests, displaying poetry and slogans denouncing the […]
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