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 Bloomberg: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s largest retailer, said it will allow employees in China to unionize following criticism that the company exploits lax employee protection in the country to keep costs low. Wal-Mart, which employs 23,000 people in the country, will let the All-China Federation of Trade Unions set up branches in all […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: For Chinese punks today, it might take screaming to be heard. They make up a small slice of the music industry here, and they play to a largely underground scene. But their struggle to gain attention...
Read MoreA man in Guilin carries chickens in a basket, by china.sixty4
Read MoreFrom Business Week: Today, China is richer, and that’s unquestionably a good thing. A huge wave of privatizations, mergers, and shutdowns within the once-sprawling state-owned corporate sector has cleared away a lot of deadwood. Home ownership in big cities such as Beijing and Shanghai is high by global standards. Yet China is also home to […]
Read MoreIn the New York Times Book Review, Orville Schell reviews “Chinese Lessons” by John Pomfret: It is commonplace these days for visitors to be swept away by the breathtaking energy and dazzling high-rise vistas of Shanghai and Beijing. Even for Sinophiles like myself, who have been watching China for decades, the amazing development of this […]
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