Friday, July 19, 2013

On-line sources for China news

From the handout I emailed....



GOOD SOURCES FOR NEWS ABOUT CONTEMPORARY CHINA

There is a spectrum of news sources from within China. To simplify: People’s Daily English offers the government line; China Daily reflects greater attention to international reception of the Chinese government’s line – it is only published in English; Global Times in English seems to somewhere in between the two but some think it is especially nationalistic for various reasons); Caixin (http://english.caixin.com/) is the boldest China-based journalism published in English.  South China Morning Post is an interesting Hong Kong paper in English, with lots of in-depth reporting.  Taiwanese newspapers do a lot of highly politicized reporting on China. 

There are lots of interesting blogs in English on China, covering a wide range of viewpoints.  Chinese blogging is also interesting to try to follow.  The Chinese Digital Times project at the University of California (http://chinadigitaltimes.net/) follows some of this, focusing on critical views.  China Dialogue is a completely bilingual site that focuses on environmental issues (http://www.chinadialogue.net/) and welcomes reader participation in discussions.  See also Global Voices Online (http://globalvoicesonline.org/), co-founded by China scholar Rebecca MacKinnon to draw attention to bloggers in non-English languages around the world.

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