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 Times: Why has it taken television so long to produce a big series on China (BBC Two), the country that’s like the juggernaut you notice in your rear-view mirror as you’re pootling along the motorway: huge, powerful, looming forever larger, and just about to overtake you? Maybe it’s because China is moving so […]
Read MoreFrom New Statesman: Dr Sun Yat-sen Park is named after the founding father of modern China, and it stands on the site where the imperial family worshipped their ancestors, some 600 years ago. Today, it is the venue of China’s first “love market”, a meeting point between China’s tradition of arranged marriage and the irresistible […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: One of China’s top brass has been charged with accepting millions of dollars in bribes from contractors after one of his mistresses blew the whistle, independent sources with ties to the military said on...
Read MoreFrom Macworld.co.uk: Apple’s iPods are made by mainly female workers who earn as little as ¬£27 per month, according to a report in the Mail on Sunday yesterday. The report, ‘iPod City’, isn’t available online. It offers photographs taken from inside the factories that make Apple music players, situated in China and owned by Foxconn. […]
Read MoreFrom AP: China ordered civil servants to do without cars, elevators and air conditioning Tuesday as part of an energy-saving awareness campaign. The government targeted its employees with the one-day ban so that they could serve as an example to others, the official China Daily newspaper said, and because they use so much energy: the […]
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