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Shoes resting outside a home in Fuzhou, by Wam Mosely
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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.
The Last ‘Competitive Advantage’: Letter From China – Jehangir S. Pocha
In The Nation, Jehangir Pocha writes about the status of workers and the labor union movement in China: Global consumers buying $25 Chinese-made DVD players usually assume Chinese labor is cheap because the country has a limitless supply of poor workers. But the morally cumbersome truth is that the Chinese government systematically prevents workers from […]
Read MoreCitizen Blogger Treading New Ground? – John Kennedy
From Global Voices: Well, leave it to a young Hunanese vegetable farmer-blogger with social conscience and hunger for fame to throw down his basket, grab a camera and head off to any number of Chinese internet bars to blog one of the biggest news stories in China of 2007 and, by doing so, establish a […]
Read MoreHow to Calm Irrational Exuberance in Chinese Stocks – Hu Shuli
In Caijing, editor Hu Shuli calls the current stock market condition in China “irrational exuberance,” a term used by former U.S. Fed Chief Alan Greenspan to describe the U.S. market in the mid-90s: The risks continued to mount after China’s Labor Day holiday as the Shanghai Composite Index soared above 4,000 and more investors rushed […]
Read MoreAn Interview with Peter Hessler – Andrew Field
Andrew Field has posted an interview with Peter Hessler on his blog, Shanghai Journal. In the interview Hessler, author of River Town and Oracle Bones, talks mostly about the craft of writing. Some of his recent writing can be found in National Geographic and in the current New Yorker, where he writes about Great Wall […]
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