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 China Media Project has translated an editorial from the China Youth Daily, weighing in on the debate over real-name registration for web users: Recently the Internet Society of China has proposed trying out a limited real-name registration system for the Web, so that when a user registers their account with a blog or bulletin […]
Read MoreFrom the Globe and Mail: For years, China’s Communist rulers have coyly insisted that China is merely a developing country. Now a growing number of Chinese scholars and commentators are discarding the old bashfulness and beginning to talk openly of China’s rising power. Their bold predictions of Chinese ascendance are a reflection of the surging […]
Read MoreDongzhou villagers mourn the dead as riot police stand guard in December 2005, from The Epoch Times.
Read MoreESWN has translated a blog post by Xiaode listing the top ten media events of 2006: I was just reviewing the preamble that I wrote five years ago. I went from wandering along the fringe of the media industry to immersing myself in it, and I can feel all the sentiments associated with the comings […]
Read MoreFrom Frontline World, Part Four of China Diaries by filmmaker Brent E. Huffman is now online: Just like my native Cleveland and Cincinnati, and countless other cities in the United States, Urumqi and Lhasa are two cities sharply divided by race. By “divided” I mean literally and completely, like a pie chart, and the divisions […]
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