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 Sydney Morning Herald: A tiny widow aged 85 living in two rooms, an electric rice-cooker her only modern appliance, may be a crucial witness to a dispute involving Jung Chang, the wealthy Chinese author of the worldwide bestseller Wild Swans. The dispute is one of many being picked up by some of the […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: Is China on the brink of being the world’s economic champion, or is it still just a developing country with hundreds of millions of poor? How about both? Sometimes it’s hard to separate the perception from the reality, but there are good reasons China is already punching above its weight […]
Read MoreFrom The Nation: Ever since taking office, the Bush Administration has struggled to define its stance on the most critical long-term strategic issue facing the United States: whether to view China as a future military adversary,...
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Fancy imported cars, five star hotels and slick malls dot Guangzhou, the hub of a region that has blossomed into one of China’s — and the world’s — main economic engines. But Chen stands by the train station as a reminder of one of the most dangerous features to develop on China’s socio-political […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: The Kennedy Center’s Festival of China promises rare glimpses of art from half a world away. But Tuesday at the Eisenhower Theater, it was a familiar Western work that offered the biggest surprise, as the National Ballet of China performed a tender and finely detailed excerpt from the French romantic ballet […]
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