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 Chicago Tribune: The timing for a performance art boom seems exactly right for urban China, which has reached a level of sophistication, affluence and self-absorption that leads naturally to self-reflection and critical analysis. But these are potentially dangerous notions to an authoritarian government. Because performance art is very public, provocative and can start […]
Read MoreScotsman.com The United States has urged China to account for thousands of citizens who were killed, detained or disappeared during the “brutal and tragic” Tiananmen Square crackdown. The Chinese authorities tightened security over the weekend and there were no signs of public commemorations in the giant square, where the student-led protests ended on 4 June, […]
Read MoreFrom Wired Magazine: The manufacturing relationship with China is very close. The aluminum in Shuttle’s PCs comes from Taiwan, which is shipped to China for machining and then back to Taiwan for assembly. Those tight business relationships are beneficial to both countries, but they overlook a potentially disastrous complication: China and Taiwan are technically at […]
Read MoreFrom the Australian: A Chinese government threat to close down unregistered websites has convinced just 430,000 to make themselves known at the Information Ministry – suggesting that most of the country’s estimated 4 million web loggers, or bloggers, are choosing to stay out in the cold.
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