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 International Herald Tribune: ‘Swan Lake” is one of the best-loved of all ballets, especially in China, where it was the first full-length ballet performed by Chinese dancers after the founding of the People’s Republic. The Tchaikovsky classic is a standard in the Central Ballet of China’s repertory and is also frequently performed by […]
Read MoreESWN has provided a loose translation of an article from Yazhou Zhoukan (Asia Weekly): Now corruption is present whenever opportunities present themselves and the risks of being caught are perceived to be low. So it is really really unfortunate that there are abundant opportunities for improper enrichment in the Henan AIDS villages of Shangcai county […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: A deputy governor of Hunan apparently tried to kill himself at his home in Changsha last week after being questioned by inspectors from Beijing, making him the most senior official in the country to attempt suicide. Sources said Zheng Maoqing, 60, had been admitted to hospital […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: The “Go West” campaign is one of many policies China has initiated to develop the infrastructure and vast resources of its far western regions, Xinjiang and Xizang, also known as the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, while strengthening political and economic ties with bordering states. As money continues to be invested in these regions […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: In mountainous Miyun, a suburb of Beijing about 120 kilometers from Tiananmen Square, farmers have taken advantage of their location along a highway from the district center to where Beijing outdoors people like to scale cliffs on weekends. Farmers living along the road have converted their homes into guesthouses that charge 40 […]
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.
