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.
Han Han: ‘Why Aren’t You Grateful?’
In the New York Review of Books, Ian Johnson critiques a new book of translated essays by Han Han, This Generation: Dispatches from China’s Most Popular Literary Star (and Race Car Driver), and looks at the limits of his...
Read MoreToll-free Holiday Traffic Ends in Gridlock
As China commenced a week-long National Day vacation known as Golden Week, authorities decided to do car travelers a favor and make the roads toll-free. With train tickets for the long holiday selling out fast, and an increasing...
Read MoreBachelor Padding
In Foreign Policy, Roseann Lake looks at the complicated social and economic factors that have led to China’s real estate bubble. She focuses on the pressure on single men to own property in order to attract a potential...
Read MoreHexie Farm (蟹农场): Walking the Plank
For the latest installment in his CDT series, cartoonist Crazy Crab of Hexie Farm depicts disgraced former Chongqing Party Secretary Bo Xilai walking the plank at the behest of his former Politburo colleagues, shown here as...
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