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.
Government Lesson in How to Avoid “Total Havoc” – Beijing Newspeak
Beijing Newspeak uncovers a remarkable quote in the South China Morning Post in which the Director of the Chinese Research Academy of the Environmental Sciences’ Institute of Water Environment reveals statistics that have been classified, including the fact that, “more than 450 drinking water sources in key national environmental protection cities could not meet the […]
Read MoreA Fusion of Cultures in a Family Affair – Holland Cotter
The New York Times reviews the new exhibit at the Metropolitan, “Bridging East and West: The Chinese Diaspora and Lin Yutang“: The collection, acquired by the Met in 2005, is unostentatious, with some 40 examples of painting and calligraphy, all but two dating from the 20th century. Although it has fine things, it is not […]
Read MoreChina Struggles to Polish its Image – Mark Magnier
The Los Angeles Times writes about the government’s efforts at image control in the midst of a spate of bad news: The Communist Party prefers its public relations in the form of carefully scripted reports handed down through controlled channels that praise the leadership and play up the positive. This is especially true in the […]
Read MoreChina to Free Jailed New York Times Employee – Jim Yardley (Updated)
Update: Zhao was released early Saturday morning. Journalist and former New York Times researcher Zhao Yan is slated to be released from prison this weekend, according to the New York Times: Prison officials in Beijing told Mr. Zhao’s older sister that he would be released before 9 a.m. on Saturday. The sister, Zhao Kun, said […]
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