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.

The Kids of Foxconn

Photographer Jordan Pouille has spent time at the massive Foxconn campus outside Shenzhen, the site of 13 worker suicides this year and the primary supplier for Apple and other global high-tech companies. He gets to know the...

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Christmas Blossoms in China

Several foreign media reports look at the rising popularity of celebrating Christmas in China. From the BBC: Only an estimated 2% of China’s population are practising Christians so, for people such as Ms Liu, there are no...

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Book Publishers Scramble for Chinese Readers

The New York Times reports on efforts to publish “The Persian Boy,” by Mary Renault, and other foreign works of literature, in Chinese: With tastes growing more sophisticated and worldly, foreign book publishers have leapt at...

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China Has a Lot of Peacemaking to Do

The Chinese government is hoping to mend some fences in coming months following diplomatic rows with several countries, the Los Angeles Times reports: For a leadership that sailed through the global financial crisis with nary a...

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Foreign Words to be Standardized

China Daily reports on new regulations against the mixing of Chinese and foreign languages in media reports: Under the regulation, abbreviations such as GDP (gross domestic product), CEO (chief executive officer) and CPI...

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