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.
For the CDT Bookshelf, China Digital Times invites experts on China to recommend a book to CDT readers. This month, Mary E. Gallagher, an assistant professor in the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan, recommends “Rightful Resistance in Rural China” by Kevin O’Brien and Lianjiang Li, Cambridge University Press, 2006. Gallagher writes: […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post (link): With Chinese President Hu Jintao in the United States this week, Americans have an opportunity to assess his regime. What is this country to think? On the one hand his government has raised the living standards of millions of its citizens with economic reform and international trade. On the other […]
Read MoreFrom The Nation (link): The Defense Department has met its long-term enemy, and it is China [see Michael T. Klare, “Revving Up the China Threat“]… But nowhere does the image of China as the Next Big Threat jar with reality more than in China itself, where economic, social and environmental upheaval has turned the country […]
Read MoreThe following essay by Geremie R. Barm√© originally appeared in the Review weekly supplement, The Australian Financial Review, 31st March 2006. Published without notes under the title “Historical Distortions”. Thanks to Mr. Barm√© for allowing CDT to reprint it here. A Year of Some Significance By Geremie R. Barm√© History matters. It matters in Australia […]
Read MoreThe New York Times Magazine will have a lengthy article about Google in China this weekend. A preview is available on their website (link): For many young people in China, Kai-Fu Lee is a celebrity. Not quite on the level of a movie star like Edison Chen or the singers in the boy band F4, […]
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