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 South China Morning Post, via Asia Media (link): A Guangzhou professor attacked in print last month over his call for “an objective attitude to history” has hit back at critics in a 15,000-word article circulated on the internet. Yuan Weishi’s article was put online last night by Li Datong, the sacked editor of […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian (link): Mick Jagger heaped sarcastic praise on China’s censors yesterday as it emerged that another of the Rolling Stones’ songs has been banned ahead of their first concert in the world’s most populous country… Speaking at a press conference on the eve of the gig, Jagger noted the irony in the authorities […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune (link): There is much talk of a labor shortage in China. Some bemoan its impact on wages and profit margins. Some see it as proof of the dynamism of the economy, some as a harbinger of declining competitiveness in international markets. Others dismiss it as a largely mythical invention of […]
Read MoreFrom the Wall Street Journal, via the Washington Post (link): China has placed a moratorium on new foreign magazines on topics other than science and technology, dealing a blow to international media companies looking to tap the nation’s booming advertising market. One casualty of the policy, adopted by China’s top publishing regulator, is the Chinese […]
Read MoreFrom Esquire Magazine (link): What I’m here to tell you is this: You can achieve the fabled Middle East peace, but only if you lay down an effective fire wall between that region and the two potential flash points that can still ignite East Asia and send this whole global economy up in flames in […]
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