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 Christian Science Monitor, via ABCNews.com: Women like Hung make up almost 20 percent of the country’s entrepreneurs, according to the China Association of Women Entrepreneurs. They’re attracted, experts say, by an atmosphere that measures them largely by results rather than gender, by the allure of calling the shots, and by the chance to […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: The world’s attention has been focused on China in the past month because of the aborted bid by China National Offshore Oil Corp. to take over the American company Unocal, and the July 21 “repeg” of China’s currency, the yuan. But three other recent developments are much more important, because […]
Read MoreFor the CDT Bookshelf, China Digital Times invites experts on China to recommend a book to CDT readers. This month, Washington Post correspondent John Pomfret recommends Prisoner of Mao, by Bao Ruo-wang (Jean Pasqualini), 326 pages, Penguin (out of print but easily available on any old books site on the Internet). Pomfret writes: “It is […]
Read MoreFor the CDT Bookshelf, China Digital Times invites experts on China to recommend a book to CDT readers. This month, Orville Schell, dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley, recommends “The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China’s Future,” by Elizabeth C. Economy, Council on Foreign Relations […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: Everything you hear about Jack Ma is improbable. But today, he looks like one of China’s smartest high-technology entrepreneurs. Yahoo’s huge deal with him Thursday has turned his company, Alibaba.com, into the biggest Internet operation in China, where Internet use is growing at an explosive pace.
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