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.
Inside China’s Censorship Machine
Posted by Sophie Beach | Jan 30, 2012
The National Post excerpts a section of Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle For Internet Freedom, by Rebecca MacKinnon, which explains the many layers of Internet censorship in China: China’s censorship system is...
Read MoreThe Paradox of Prosperity
Posted by Sophie Beach | Jan 29, 2012
The Economist has launched a weekly section devoted to China, which it introduces with an article titled “The paradox of prosperity”: Only 20 years ago, China was a long way from being a global superpower. After the...
Read MoreChinese Crackdown Seals Off Ethnic Unrest
Posted by Sophie Beach | Jan 29, 2012
Following large-scale unrest and subsequent reports of police shooting protesters in Tibetan areas of western Sichuan, authorities are cracking down in the region, including in Chengdu, 200 miles away from the violence. The New...
Read MoreIs Democracy Chinese? An Interview with Journalist Chang Ping
Posted by Sophie Beach | Jan 28, 2012
Chang Ping, one of China’s top journalists, was forced out of his position as an editor at the Southern Group of newspapers one year ago. He is currently living in Germany for although he holds an editorial position at...
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