Sophie Beach

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.

India and China, Globalized – Dr. Pradeep Taneja and Dr. Salim Lakha

Melbourne University posted a podcast comparing the effects of globalization on India and China. The interviewees are Dr Pradeep Taneja, who teaches in the School of Political Science, Criminology and Sociology at the University of Melbourne and Dr Salim Lakha, whose area of specialization is India, and he has published extensively on industrialization, labor relations, […]

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Mean Streets – Jonathan Ansfield

For Spot-On, Jonathan Ansfield writes about life as a laowai in Beijing, as police tighten the reins in the run-up to the 17th Party Congress: …In the most posh and powerful neighborhoods of China, in a numbing flash of five or ten years – it’s hard to pinpoint exactly when – the foreigner has faded […]

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Brits Get Rich in China

A Survivor-type take on British businessmen looking to make a fortune in China called Brits Get Rich in China, is now playing on YouTube (via All Roads Lead to China). It’s a seven-part series, each of which is 10 minutes long (and can be viewed here). From Part 1:

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Today’s Myanmar, Yesterday’s China? – Global Voices

Jacky on Global Voices translated some more bloggers’ posts about the Burma crisis, with allusions to the 1989 protests in China: It is not easy to find similar posts on the Chinese internet now. As the 17th Party Congress is approaching, most of the Chinese web sites have tightened up their filters. However, Chinese are […]

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