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.
Tiananmen Square: 23 Years Later
Posted by Sophie Beach | Jun 4, 2012
Today marked the 23rd anniversary of the military crackdown on protesters in Beijing, and, as usual, the government kept a tight rein on online speech, the media, and political dissidents and activists. More surprising was the...
Read MoreCartoon: The Spirit of June 4th, by Hexie Farm (蟹农场)
Posted by Sophie Beach | Jun 3, 2012
For his latest entry to his CDT series, cartoonist Crazy Crab of Hexie Farm honors those who were killed by military fire in the crackdown on protesters in Beijing in the early morning hours of June 4, 1989 by depicting their...
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