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.
On his Chinese Law and Politics blog, Carl Minzner asks if recent reports that Yunnan will eliminate the hukou system are accurate: Short answer – no. At least one website has reported that recent reforms undertaken by the provincial government of Yunnan will “eliminate” the household registration (hukou) system. This isn’t the case. The announced […]
Read MoreThe Independent reports from Xiahe, Gansu Province, where hundreds of Tibetan monks celebrated the awarding of the U.S. Congressional Gold Medal to the Dalai Lama: Eyewitnesses, who cannot be named for fear of retribution, told of how the monks met stiff opposition from the police, and the celebrations on the night of 17 October quickly […]
Read MoreNBA.com provides a chart of nicknames that U.S. basketball stars have acquired in China: German Racecar is hot, and he’s working hard to get his team to the playoffs. Meanwhile Little Emperor lords over the East and his team just clinched a postseason spot. Hold on, hold on, what are you talking about? Who is […]
Read MoreThe following was written by CDT’s Jonathan Ansfield for his Biganzi column: Anyone who revels in shaming queue-jumpers in China might take this as a cautionary tale: According to a report in Zhengzhou’s Dahe Bao, a motorist waiting to gas up at a filling station died on Tuesday at the hands of a trucker who […]
Read MoreThe Three Gorges Dam in action, by tyler_haglund
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