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.
In National Geographic, Peter Hessler writes about Wenzhou and the factory towns that are springing up nearby to feed the region’s entrepreneurial boom. The article also includes a slideshow by Mark Leong: The Wenzhou airport bookstore stocks a volume titled, Actually, You Don’t Understand the Wenzhou People. It shares a shelf with The Feared Wenzhou […]
Read MoreOn his Chinese Law and Politics blog, Carl Minzner questions the recent conventional wisdom that citizen activism is leading to a higher number of court cases in China, and includes statistics on the various kinds of cases heard in China in recent years to prove his point: There have been several references recently to the […]
Read MoreA woman sells steamed buns in a Beijing hutong, by Robert Brauneis
Read MoreFrom China Media Project: In a bold analysis making the rounds in print media and on the Internet yesterday, Wang Guixiu, a scholar with the Party School of CPC Central Committee, criticized normative approaches to “power monitoring” in China, saying they were based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the notion of power relationships and the […]
Read MoreForeign Policy’s website has posted a debate between James Mann and David Lampton over China’s political future (Read a CDT interview with James Mann on this issue here): Nearly two decades after the Tiananmen Square clampdown, China remains a tightly controlled state ruled by the Communist Party. But just how repressive is the Middle Kingdom […]
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