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.
Photo: Spring Festival parade in Haidian, Beijing in 1983, by Steven Vik
Posted by Sophie Beach | Jan 22, 2012
The Secret Document That Transformed China
Posted by Sophie Beach | Jan 21, 2012
NPR revisits the village of Xiaogang, which, at the height of Maoism in China, wrote up a secret contract which allowed farmers to keep a portion of the crops they grew. Now, 34 years later, Xiaogang is widely known as the...
Read MorePhoto: Farmers in the Xishuangbanna region of Yunnan, by jaywei80
Posted by Sophie Beach | Jan 19, 2012
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