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 Standard: What began as an ice-breaking trip to the mainland by Hong Kong’s lawmakers turned ice cold Sunday when a war of words erupted between pro- democracy lawmakers and Guangdong’s top Communist Party official. The heated exchange appears to be a major embarrassment for Chief Executive Donald Tsang, who organized the trip.
Read MoreFrom the Toronto Star: Although Hu Jintao’s visit to North America was overshadowed by coverage of Hurricane Katrina, one theme that came through clearly in Canadian reporting was our desire to expand trade with China. Bilateral trade with the People’s Republic currently is worth about $20 billion a year, and accounts for just a tiny […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Two innocents abroad learn the limits of American idealism – or the limits of their own, at least – in “No Foreigners Beyond This Point,” Warren Leight‘s wistfully funny new play about the difficulty of doing good in a society rigged to accommodate only more cynical transactions. Produced by the […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: China on Sunday imposed more restrictions intended to limit the news and other information available to Internet users, and it sharply restricted the scope of content permitted on Web sites. The rules...
Read MoreFor the CDT Bookshelf, China Digital Times invites experts on China to recommend a book to CDT readers. This month, James Mann, author-in-residence, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and former Beijing correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, recommends “To Change China: Western Advisers in China, 1620-1960” by Jonathan Spence, Little, Brown and Company, […]
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