The Economist in China – Old Hands Maybe…But Slippery Ones Too

The Economist’s new China blog “Analects” (yea, never underestimate how smart those guys think they are!) has a piece on the history of the Economist in China. The Economist was one of the British and American papers that mis-reported the murder of all foreigners in Peking in the Boxer Rebellion. They like to suggest that the quality of their reporting has improved since – there’s that WE know best tone from the Economist again…It thinks you’ll find smarty pantsers that WE, the prospective readers, get to make that call!

The whole article on the ups and downs of the Economist’s China reporting here

Here’s the cover of Peter Fleming’s book that tells the whole story of how they all got it wrong in 1900