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, Perry Link, Professor of Chinese at Princeton University, recommends “River Town” by Peter Hessler,...
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Determined to be the first Western auction house to capitalize firsthand on China’s booming art market, Christie’s has signed an agreement to conduct auctions in Beijing, company officials said. And to meet Chinese government restrictions on foreign businesses holding auctions on their own, it has teamed up with a newly […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via MSNBC: Google Inc.’s popular online mapping service has become entangled in a long-running territorial dispute between China and Taiwan. Until recently, Google’s maps described Taiwan as a “province of China.” That sparked protests from Taiwan’s government, which has considered its island an independent state since ending a civil war with China more […]
Read MoreFrom CNet News: Shanghai police are investigating advertisements offering babies for sale on a Chinese Web site owned by Internet auction power eBay, state media said on Thursday. The ads, which appeared on the Eachnet site on Oct. 16, promised babies under 100 days old from the impoverished central province of Henan at prices of […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: The U.S. defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, urged the next generation of China’s Communist leadership on Wednesday to become “a major player” in the global economy by taking steps to strengthen the system and not just reap the financial rewards, and he warned against erecting “another type of Great Wall” restricting […]
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