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.