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 International Herald Tribune: When Deng Xiaoping opened up China’s economy more than 25 years ago, the prevailing view in much of the West was that his reforms signaled the beginning of the end for the country’s authoritarian regime. This prediction was not specific to China. Conventional wisdom at the time held – and […]
Read MoreThe South China Morning Post (via Asia Media) has reported on an open letter by China Youth Daily editor Li Datong to the paper’s staff: A veteran editor of the outspoken China Youth Daily has taken the newspaper’s...
Read MoreFor China Digital Times’ new feature, CDT Bookshelf, we will invite China experts to recommend their favorite China-related books to our readers. To read the current recommendations, click on the CDT Bookshelf section of the site. We will periodically post new recommendations, which will appear in the left-hand column of the front page. We hope […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Pulse, via Asia Times: China is gearing up to develop clean energy by using nuclear, wind and solar sources to generate power in order to cut reliance on coal and oil, said a senior official from the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). “The government is vigorously making efforts to tap clean energies […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via the Washington Post: Toiling in the tropical summer heat, Chen Yan-hai has made a living for the past 40 years by plucking red and yellow mangoes from the orchard-dotted foothills of Taiwan’s central mountain range. But he and other farmers in the mango capital of Yuching in Tainan County have seen their […]
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