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 a Christian Science Monitor editorial: Web giant Google and incendiary “Muhammad cartoons” have more in common than 2.7 million search hits that phrase produces. Google – which self-censors in order to do business in China – and the toon tumult point to a need for smart sensitivity in exercising freedom of expression. Media such […]
Read MoreFrom the Boston Globe: Contemporary Chinese art is sizzling. Christie’s auction house, which opened a branch in Beijing 10 years ago to scout for new work in the country’s burgeoning art scene, conducted its first auction there in November, looking to capitalize on the appetite for art among China’s newly rich. Next month, Sotheby’s will […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC: China and Japan are to resume routine talks amid continuing diplomatic tension over several issues, including a controversial war shrine in Tokyo. The talks are set to take place on Friday and Saturday, in Japan. The announcement followed comments at the weekend by Japan’s Foreign Minister Taro Aso which angered Beijing. See […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: An arm of the Chinese government made an unexpected announcement recently: it openly admitted that health-care reform in China has failed. In a report by the Development Research Center of the State Council, the authors wrote that “generally speaking, the reform [has been] unsuccessful”, citing wasted resources and a decreasing number of […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: It’s no secret among cadres in Jiangsu province that their Chinese Communist Party (CCP) secretary, Li Yuanchao, is the leading contender to be the next premier of China in 2013. It is equally no secret that some don’t share much pride in this. Li, 55, has drawn mixed feelings among his fellow […]
Read More
Click on the image to download Firefly for circumvention
CDT is a non-profit media site, and we need your support. Your contribution will help us provide more translations, breaking news, and other content you love.
