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The China Beat

Posted by Jeremy Goldkorn, January 17, 2008 2:04 PM

Here is a promising new blog: The China Beat.

With a tagline 'Blogging How the East Is Read'. the site has a line-up of 15 writers, some of whom may be familiar to Danwei readers, including:

• Jeremiah Jenne of the Granite Studio blog, self-described as 'a Qing historian reads the newspaper'
• Leslie Chang, a former Beijing correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, now writing a book about Chinese labor issues
• Jeff Wasserstrom, whose book China's Brave New World was featured in Danwei's 2007 China book roundup

Unfortunately for Mainland users, it's on Blogspot, which is inaccessible in China after briefly flickering to life earlier this week.

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Comments on The China Beat

ah... why don't these people use China-friendly blog sites, or set up their own? They must know how emotional Net Nanny is about blogspot.

Posted by: Shaan | January 17, 2008 2:57 PM

Why use blogspot???

AjS

Posted by: Adam Schokora | January 17, 2008 3:48 PM

perhaps it indicates that their China Beat is a bit of a Los Angeles Beat and a bit out of touch - which also indicates that perhaps by putting it on the inaccessible blogspot they are actually doing us a favour and saving us the effort of reading the musings of Los Angelenos (or whatever people there are called) on China! it's possible.

Posted by: paul | January 17, 2008 9:23 PM

China-friendly blog sites? An endangered species, I'm afraid.

That some of these writers teach at American universities is irrelevant to their ability to discuss China issues. I find your line of thinking laughable. That said, many of us (including me) are based right here in (this morning) snowy Beijing, if it makes you feel any better.

Finally, I don't know anyone who seriously follows the China blogosphere and is truly inconvenienced by the Net Nanny's block on blogspot/wordpress, etc. There are so many different workarounds, proxies, and software tools out there, I strongly suggest availing yourself of them rather than dismissing ideas you've never read based soley on the writers' choice of internet service provider.

Posted by: Jeremiah | January 21, 2008 8:32 AM