The Economic Observer is one of China’s best weekly newspapers. Its website has an English section comprising translations from the paper and some original writing.
Today, they also published an 84 page electronic book in PDF format titled Hope Through the Storm.
The book includes stories about shoddy school construction and the Sichuan earthquake, the melamine milk scandal and Beijing’s post Olympic economic blues.
You can download it for free here or read about it on this web page.