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 Washington Post: The Communist Party has launched a campaign among political leaders and senior academics to modernize Chinese Marxism, seeking to reconcile increasingly obvious contradictions between the government’s founding ideology and its broad free-market reforms. The campaign involves the allocation of millions of dollars to produce new translations of Marxist literature and to […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China’s rocketing medical charges are being fuelled by chronic corruption and a lack of official accountability, the family and doctor at the centre of a widening billing scandal said in reports on Monday. Weng Wenhui was treated for 67 days at a hospital in the northeastern city of Harbin before dying on Aug. […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Police have apprehended three of the suspects who fled after a deadly coal mine flooding which left 42 miners missing Friday in Xin’an County in central China’s Henan Province. The three included a coal mine official in charge of production safety, a director who take charge of coal mine administration in Shisi Township […]
Read MoreFrom the Los Angeles Times: Shi Yongxin wears a bright yellow robe and heavy prayer beads and lives in an ancient shrine high up in the mountains of central China. Yet he spends a lot of his time traveling in a chauffeur-driven jeep, jet-setting around the world and hobnobbing with Hollywood types. No wonder some […]
Read MoreFor the CDT Bookshelf, China Digital Times invites experts on China to recommend a book to CDT readers. This month, Geremie R. Barm√©, Professor, Division of Pacific and Asian History, Australian National University, comments on “Mao: The Unknown Story” by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, Alfred A. Knopf 2005. The following is a short excerpt […]
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