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.
Last year, the United Nations World Happiness Report listed China as the 112th happiest country out of 156. (The Ministry of Truth soon banned reporting on this indicator.) Other reports have also found that despite rising...
Read MoreTen years ago, China was dealing with an outbreak of the deadly SARS virus, which originated in Hong Kong and ending up killing 775 people worldwide. During the crisis, the government was widely criticized for its initial news...
Read MoreLast month, the Chinese government made the country’s official gini coefficient public for the first time since 2000. The official number, which measures the level of economic inequality in a society on a scale of 0 to 1,...
Read MoreSince Xi Jinping took over as General Secretary of the Communist Party at the 18th Party Congress in November, observers have been trying to suss out his commitment to reform within the Chinese government. While activist Chen...
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