17 Mar 2009

The China Beat - Blogging How the East Is Read
thechinabeat.blogspot.com, US.
Self-description:
"The China Beat [est. Jan 2008 by Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Professor of History, University of California, Irvine - ed.] examines media coverage of China, providing context and criticism from China scholars and writers."
Site contents:
* Current News (China Report - News and Commentary on Current Events, A Year of Anniversaries: 2009 1919, 1949, 1979, 1989..., Global China, Tales from Taiwan); * Media Watch (China Behind the Headline, Taelspin - The China blogosphere, 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); * Archives (The 2008 Beijing Olympics, The 2008 Tibet Riots and Protests, It's Not Just 8/8/08); * Recent Comments; * Blog Archive (2009 - 68 posts), 2008 - 290 posts).
URL http://thechinabeat.blogspot.com/
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Kristina K. Troost (kktroost--at--duke.edu), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study/News
* 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 3,000 [in fact, over 77,000 external links]