Sophie Richardson
Sophie Richardson serves as the China Director at Human Rights Watch. She has overseen the organization’s research and advocacy on China since 2006, and has published extensively on human rights and political reform in the country and across Southeast Asia. She has testified to the Canadian Parliament, European Parliament, and the United States Senate and House of Representatives. Dr. Richardson is the author of China, Cambodia, and the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence (Columbia University Press, Dec. 2009), an in-depth examination of China's foreign policy since 1954's Geneva Conference, including rare interviews with Chinese policy makers. She speaks Mandarin, and received her doctorate from the University of Virginia and her BA from Oberlin College.
Videos
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Obama in China - Rights Watch #20, November 17, 2009
Tiananmen: China's Unhealed Wound, May 12, 2009
Articles Authored
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October 23, 2015
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August 31, 2015
Dispatches: China’s Shallow Calls for Accountability
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June 18, 2015
Dispatches: An Embrace of Democracy in Hong Kong
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June 9, 2015
Dispatches: What Suu Kyi Should Say in China
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March 24, 2015
Dispatches: China Thumbs its Nose at Women Activists