01 Jun 2008

The China Beat: Blogging How the East Is Read
thechinabeat.blogspot.com, US
Self-description: "[The blog] examines media coverage of China, providing context and criticism from China scholars and writers."
Supplied note: "Dear Colleagues, We have recently published a number of original pieces at the online journal/blog, The China Beat, including several historical reflections on disaster relief in China. They include:
'Rumor and the Sichuan Earthquake,' by Steve A. Smith, 'Letters from Sichuan,' by Peter Hessler, 'Chinese Responses to Disaster: A View from the Qing,' by Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley, 'History of the Chinese Red Cross,' by Caroline Reeves, 'A Look Back at the Tangshan Earthquake and the Montreal Olympics,' by Susan Brownell, 'Disaster Relief: Material and Spiritual,' by Paul Katz, 'Writing Factory Girls,' by Leslie T. Chang, 'Torching the Relay,' by Geremie R. Barme.
And much more. Please visit us at: [the URL below] Kate Merkel-Hess."
Site contents:
REGULAR FEATURES: * 2008 in the News (The 2008 Beijing Olympics, * The 2008 Tibet Riots and Protests, It's Not Just 8/8/08, Tales from Taiwan); * Media Watch (China Behind the Headline, Taelspin, Watching the China Watchers, China Around the World); * Conversations (China on My Mind, China Annals); * Reviews (Coming Distractions, In Case You Missed It); * Miscellaneous (The Five-List Plan, This Day in History, Frivolous Fridays, Self-Promotion Saturdays)
* China Beat In The Media;
* About Us (Timothy Weston, Kate Merkel-Hess, Jeremiah Jenne, Nicole E. Barnes, Pierre Fuller, Peter Hessler, David Porter, Angilee Shah, Kenneth Pomeranz, Paul R Katz, The China Beat, Jeff Wasserstrom, Yunxiang Yan, Yong Chen, Robert Weller, Susan Jakes, Susan Brownell, Thomas S. Mullaney, Leslie T. Chang);
* Search; * RSSS Newsfeeds; * Blog Archive (Jan 2008, Feb 2008, Mar 2008, Apr 2008, May 2008).
[A note from Andrew Field, H-ASIA's editor: "[...] Unfortunately, like most other blogsites, this one is blocked in China, but by using a proxy server such as the Tor-Privoxy-Vidalia system, it is easy to get around this blockage. Another way to get round this is to subscribe to the [RSSS] feeder. I found that by using google reader, I can still read the posts on blocked blogs without having to resort to a proxy server. - AF"]
URL http://thechinabeat.blogspot.com/
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Kate Merkel-Hess (kate--at--uci.edu), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News/Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V. Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: over 3000 [in fact - over 17,800]