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.
An article in the Chronicle of Higher Education looks at the very flawed process by which Chinese students apply to and get accepted at American universities, and offers suggestions for how the system could be improved to...
Read MoreEarlier this week, CDT reported on rumors that two major Beijing newspapers, Beijing News and Beijing Times, had been moved under the direct authority of the Beijing Propaganda Department. As the Guardian reports, the rumors...
Read MoreThe Guardian reports from Banzhushan, Hunan, where dozens of bachelors reside without a single unattached woman of marriageable age – one of the many consequences of a traditional preference for boys: Tens of millions of...
Read MoreThe New York Times reports on the Chinese government’s increasingly common practice of making dissidents “disappear,” by detaining them with no official notice of their whereabouts, and on efforts to make the...
Read MoreThe “Chongqing model” of governance has gotten a lot of attention in the past year as Party chef Bo Xilai has instituted policies that glorify the Communist Party’s roots and a “red culture” drive....
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