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.
From the Christian Science Monitor: Gulinar Sitkan’s contribution to China’s pollution problem is four tons of coal a year. It forms heaping black piles outside the shepherd’s log cabin in this mountainous village of China’s northwestern Xinjiang Province. Coal is cheap and readily available, and China burns nearly 2 billion tons a year for energy […]
Read MoreIn The Nation, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom reviews three recent books about China: Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China’s Past and Present by Peter Hessler; China Candid: The People on the People’s Republic by Sang Ye; Geremie R. Barm√© and Miriam Lang, eds.; and One China, Many Paths by Chaohua Wang, ed.: What kinds of conclusions […]
Read MoreFor the CDT Bookshelf, China Digital Times invites experts on China to recommend a book to CDT readers. This month, Edward Friedman, a professor in the Political Science department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, recommends China’s Peaceful Rise: Speeches of Zheng Bijian 1997-2005 Brookings Institution Press, 2005. Friedman writes: This is a collection of talks […]
Read MorePhoto: An elderly couple have lunch on the stoop in front of their modest home in Jingdezhen, by Natalie Behring
Read MoreForeign reporters in China have begun writing personal blogs where they discuss their lives as foreign correspondents, their thoughts about China, and other topics that don’t fit into their daily reportage. Richard Spencer of The Telegraph has a blog here, Tim Johnson of McClatchy Newspapers runs China Rises, Howard French of the New York Times […]
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