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.
Filmmaker Du Bin Detained in Beijing
Posted by Sophie Beach | Jun 13, 2013
Du Bin, a documentary filmmaker, photographer and author based in Beijing, disappeared on May 31 and is being held under criminal detention. Du, who worked as a freelance photographer for the New York Times, directed documentary...
Read MoreIs Prism Turning the U.S. into China?
Posted by Sophie Beach | Jun 11, 2013
Reaction to Edward Snowden’s disclosures of documents revealing widespread U.S. government surveillance of communication systems has been somewhat muted on Chinese social media networks. Some people have accused the U.S....
Read MoreCan a Sleepy Chinese Town Become a Cultural Mecca?
Posted by Sophie Beach | Jun 10, 2013
For Salon, Jonathan Kalb reports on the Wuzhen Festival, a new international theater festival being launched in a canal town in Zhejiang: In a brand new, eye-popping, $67 million, 1135-seat Grand Theater designed by the renowned...
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