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.
Welcome to CDT 3.0
Posted by Sophie Beach | Dec 12, 2011
Welcome to the new China Digital Times. CDT was launched in 2003, and since then has been aggregating and highlighting China news on a daily basis. Now when you visit CDT, you will see a variety of changes: – The front...
Read MorePhoto: Migrant workers playing cards in the Tianjin train station, by Jordan Pouille
Posted by Sophie Beach | Dec 12, 2011
CDT Site Upgrade
Posted by Sophie Beach | Dec 12, 2011
Over the course of the next several hours, we will be upgrading the CDT website. The site will therefore be inaccessible for several hours (up to 24 hours in some places) while we install some improvements in both design and...
Read MoreNo, Hu Didn’t Call for War
Posted by Sophie Beach | Dec 11, 2011
For The Diplomat, M. Taylor Fravel responds to an AFP article which translated a speech by Hu Jintao in which, according to their report, he was upping the rhetoric endorsing military conflict in the South China Sea. Fravel...
Read MoreCDT EBOOKS
Unbounded by Lantern
CDT in the News
- Reuters – With national holidays approaching, Chinese workers demand a proper break
- Vision Times – Former Chinese Journalist Accuses Jiangxi Investigators of Torture, Coercion
- CyberScoop – Volexity spots another China-aligned threat group exploiting Chrome and Microsoft defects
- HRIC – HRIC Digital Rights Report – August 2026
- Safeguard Defenders – CGTN: See the Difference. China’s Party-State Media in Focus
- More...



