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 Yale Global Online: As China’s center for foreign investment and cosmopolitan culture, Shanghai provides an intriguing case study on the intersection of globalism and nationalism, writes James Farrer. During the recent wave of anti-Japanese protests, demonstrators’ voices alternated between an intensely nationalist rhetoric and a more subdued, moderate internationalism. And as for government reaction […]
Read MoreFrom the IHT: Surging anti-Japan sentiment, which has plunged relations between Asia’s two leading powers into crisis, has been fanned in part by official propaganda and hotheaded Chinese youth who hurl stones into Japan’s diplomatic compounds. But pressure on Japan to face up to its history was initiated, and could be sustained well into the […]
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Read MoreFrom the Standard: The idea of “money first, everything else second” now appears to have affected nearly everyone on the mainland. So don’t be surprised or upset when you find you have to pay a whole lot more for a ticket to visit a World Heritage site in China – or to discover that designation […]
Read MoreFrom CNN’s special report Eye on China, an article about rural discontent and the recent riots in Huankantou: The hardships and resentments felt there — against corrupt local officials, pollution, land seizures, and the growing wealth gap between the urban rich and rural poor — are felt by millions of rural Chinese across the country. […]
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