China Reading – Some Lists

Before I forget I’m going add a couple of links to a few lists I was asked to put together by the good folk at The China Beat blog (which for some weird reason remains on Blogspot and so verboten to those in China (i.e. most people and me) who don’t understand all that VPN and proxy server stuff. Still, they were fun to do and some might enjoy them:

A contribution to The China Beat’s series of reading recommendations on China to the (then) newly installed President Obama – though I feel the other contributors took this a bit more seriously than me and seemed to be labouring under the impression that Obama was actually going to check out these suggestions! Click here

A series of lists that acted as a thinly veiled bit of promotion for my new book on foreign hacks in China and included Five foreign correspondents of the past I never tired of reading while doing my research for this book; Five foreign correspondents I found myself wishing had written less and; Five of the best by now totally forgotten China books from the early-to-mid 1900s. Click here