Chinese dispatches is moving/ transforming/ evolving!

Since I am no longer sending out dispatches from China, and am back in the States, I think it is time for a new blog. Shanzhai Zhongguo is it! It will be a collection of current China related stories I am reading, of which I am reading so many, plus I will add my own thoughts about the stories themselves and who is reporting on them. I also will revive the (marginally, ha!) popular Chinese Geography series and will add a new Chinese History series as well. So please head on over.

Minxin Pei and Fareed Zakaria

Two of my favorite scholars on China and international affairs sit down and chat about China, India, and the world:

The return of the native

I have come back to this side of the world. It has been a long time, two and a half years since I left to go to China and I hadn't been back since. It feels very good to be back and so good to see so many old friends and my family. I've been pretty busy as of late running around seeing everyone, and I will continue to do so for at least another few weeks. But now that I have come out from under the warm embrace of the Great Firewall I now have regular access to my blog again.

Huzzah!

Though it would have been very nice to have been able to continue to post so many more things while I was still in country, I will be making it up by posting thoughts and pictures which I've been saving to post.