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.
Popular Criticism Cracks China’s Wall of Denial About Pollution
Posted by Sophie Beach | Jan 27, 2012
While the Chinese government has tried for years to downplay environmental problems in the country, citizens are now taking matters into their own hands, the New York Times reports: Officials have claimed for years that the air...
Read MoreChina’s Young Power Base
Posted by Sophie Beach | Jan 27, 2012
As part of her series of reports on the Chinese Communist Party, Melissa Chan of Al Jazeera reports on youth who are joining the Communist Youth League: See also Chan’s report on the Central Party School in...
Read MoreChina’s Hidden Wealth Feeds an Income Gap
Posted by Sophie Beach | Jan 25, 2012
For the New York Times, Didi Kirsten Tatlow looks at the role of the gray economy in obscuring China’s economic figures as the prodigious spending habits of the country’s wealthy elite attract international...
Read MoreInside a Chinese Communist Party School
Posted by Sophie Beach | Jan 25, 2012
For Al Jazeera, Melissa Chan reports from the Central Party School in Beijing where she listens in on surprisingly freewheeling discussion: China’s ruling Communist Party’s 80 million members attend special schools...
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