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The China BeatPosted by Jeremy Goldkorn on Thursday, January 17, 2008 at 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' 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.
Why use blogspot???
AjS
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.
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.