Sophie Beach
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.
Chen Guangcheng Case Widens Political Rift
Posted by Sophie Beach | Jun 21, 2013
The rift over exiled legal activist Chen Guangcheng’s departure from New York University is deepening, with both defenders and detractors of his claims that NYU kicked him out for political reasons continuing to speak out....
Read MoreChinese Nonprofits Survive and Thrive
Posted by Sophie Beach | Jun 19, 2013
The non-profit sector in China has always been tightly regulated, and civil groups are required to register with a government sponsor. However, Christina Larson reports for Business Week that the number of non-profits and their...
Read MoreHexie Farm (蟹农场): Human, Rights
Posted by Sophie Beach | Jun 18, 2013
For his latest contribution to the Hexie Farm CDT series, cartoonist Crazy Crab comments on the recent detention of filmmaker Du Bin as well as the ongoing house arrest of Liu Xia, wife of Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, and others...
Read MoreFive Books: Gady Epstein on China and the Internet
Posted by Sophie Beach | Jun 17, 2013
For the Five Books series, The Economist’s Gady Epstein suggests five books which helped him understand how the Internet in China works. In April, Epstein produced a special report for the Economist called China’s...
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