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.
As National People’s Congress delegates meet in Beijing, and Xi Jinping officially takes over as state president, China’s leaders are confronting a number of urgent issues facing the nation, including the degradation...
Read MoreRumors circulated on Weibo this week about an attack by one or more Uyghurs on Han Chinese in Korla, Xinjiang. Local police have now confirmed an attack but few details are available, Radio Free Asia reports (See Update below):...
Read MoreFor the latest installment in his CDT series, cartoonist Crazy Crab of Hexie Farm returns to a favorite subject, Grimm’s fairy tales, to comment on Chinese politics. In this drawing, the seven wizards (an allusion to the...
Read MoreLegal activist Chen Guangcheng, now based in New York, recently provided more details about the treatment in detention of his nephew, Chen Kegui, who is serving a prison sentence for injuring officials who entered his home after...
Read MoreIn 2011, the death of a toddler after being hit by a car while bystanders stood by but didn’t help generated outrage on Chinese social media and raised questions about Good Samaritanism in Chinese society. These questions...
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