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 Observer: Once used purely for propaganda, photography has exploded in China in the last decade. Experimental artists have gained international success by playing with ideas of truth and fiction, the old and the new, vanishing traditions and modern urban alienation. As a major exhibition opens at the V&A, Gaby Wood finds out what […]
Read MoreFor the CDT Bookshelf, China Digital Times invites experts on China to recommend a book to CDT readers. This month, Richard Baum, Director of the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, recommends Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, Jonathan Cape, 2005 (to be published in the […]
Read MorePioneering former Southern Metropolis News (ÂçóÊñπÈÉΩÂ∏ÇÊä•) editor Cheng Yizhong has been invited by Sohu.com to write daily commentary on China’s newspapers. Cheng spent five months in prison but was released last...
Read MoreFrom ESWN’s blog: A sea change is a profound transformation that takes place gradually over time. Seas rise, even if only at the rate of inches per century, but they do rise inexorablly to change everything. In the Deutsche Welle interview with Chinese blogger Michael Anti (see Blogging in China: The Michael Anti Interview), there […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: The White House said on Saturday it canceled a planned visit by Chinese President Hu Jintao next week because of Hurricane Katrina. “Both presidents agreed that, in the present circumstances, it was best not to have a meeting in Washington next week,” White House press secretary Scott McClellan said in a statement.
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