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.

China sends mixed message as it releases text of new government transparency legislation – David Bandurski

Posted by | Apr 24, 2007

The China Media Project has translated much of the text of the new Ordinance on Openness of Government Information. From CMP’s introductory paragraph: As top government leaders released the much-anticipated text today of national legislation offering Chinese citizens better access to information and promising a new era of government transparency, the country’s most elite coterie […]

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Enemy of the State – Jianying Zha

Posted by | Apr 23, 2007

In the New Yorker, writer Zha Jianying, author of China Pop, has written a lengthy profile of her brother, imprisoned democracy activist Zha Jianguo: A family friend told me that Jianguo might be able to leave China on medical parole, and I asked him many times if he would consider it. He wouldn’t. “I will […]

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Yahoo’s Fiasco in China – IT Times

Posted by | Apr 23, 2007

Yeeyan.com has translated a lengthy article from IT Time Magazine (IT Êó∂‰ª£Âë®ÂàäÔºâabout Yahoo’s experience in China. The article has been widely republished in all the major Chinese online news sites: Yahoo founder Jerry Yang had never imagined, only half a month before his arrival to China, all that painful history of Yahoo China was completely […]

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“Public opinion” and China’s Japan policy – Li Datong

Posted by | Apr 23, 2007

On OpenDemocracy.net, Li Datong writes that there will be no real “public opinion” about China-Japan relations until there is press freedom: 2007 is a sensitive year in Sino-Japan relations – the seventieth anniversary of the outbreak of the second Sino-Japanese war (or the “war of resistance against Japan”). Long before Chinese premier Wen Jiabao made […]

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