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 Silicon.com: According to research by Ipsos Insight, the mean number of hours spent online in China (17.9 in one month) surpasses all other countries. Porter Erisman, VP for Chinese trading website Alibaba says: “The internet is at the core of community. If you look at online communities in the West… in China it’s like […]
Read MoreFrom RConversation: Amnesty International has released a report titled “Undermining Freedom of Expression in China.” (Click here for the FULL REPORT (503.5K PDF).) The report lays out an argument for the way in which Yahoo!, Microsoft and Google “have, through their actions, directly and admittedly contradicted their values and shared policies” by complying with Chinese […]
Read MoreFrom The Sunday Times, via the Australian: Indeed, the Chinese go out of their way to ingratiate themselves with dictators. They donated the blue tiles that adorn Mugabe’s new $17million palace in Harare. In Nigeria, a Chinese-language newspaper now serves 50,000 immigrants. At no stage in Britain’s colonisation of Nigeria did the British numbers reach […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: About a tenth of China’s vast farmland is polluted, threatening public health and the country’s fragile eco-system, the South China Morning Post said on Wednesday. About 12 million tonnes of crops had to be destroyed each year because of contamination by heavy metals, the newspaper quoted Zhou Shengxian, director of China’s State Environmental […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Like the last knights fighting a losing war, two Shanghai-based monthly magazines Shu Cheng (Book Town) and Wan Xiang (Panorama Monthly) have only recently published their first editions this year after financial difficulties forced a six-month suspension. When they temporarily stopped publication, the press wrote eulogies on China’s last “intellectual magazines,” tailored […]
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