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.
U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke gave an exclusive interview to Newsweek about his posting in Beijing, which has not lacked drama. He first discusses the day that former Chongqing police chief Wang Lijun entered the U.S....
Read MoreOn the New York Review of Books blog, Ian Johnson profiles Bill Porter, an American translator of Chinese poetry and religious books, who has become a minor literary celebrity in China: For Porter, it all started several years...
Read MoreFormer Beijing Mayor Chen Xitong, who was in office during the 1989 protests and was later jailed for corruption, has called the June 4 military crackdown on the Beijing protests a “tragedy,” according to a new book...
Read MoreFor his latest entry to his CDT series, cartoonist Crazy Crab of Hexie Farm depicts the invisible walls of censorship and self-censorship, as well as dictatorship and servility. The dictator is barking commands which the figures...
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