Posts Tagged ‘kai pan’

(photo credit: Aidan Hughes, BRUTE Propaganda)

Since it exploded onto the scene at the beginning of 2010, I’ve become a fanboy of china/divide, a creative collaboration between three of the English language Chinese blogosphere’s (say that thrice fast) all-stars: Kai “Pick Me” or Pan “Me”, Chuck “If You Gonna Dance Wid Me I Gonna Throw” Custer “On Yo’ Face,” and my fave-de-la-fave Stan “the Man Wid Da Plan” Abrams, a lawyer who does way more than litigate.

This trio of blogging mandarins have demonstrated at other places online (here, here, and here mostly) that they are genuinely tapped into the blogging ethos of what’s worthy of copious mention about China for an international audience. And since the emergence of china/divide, this online lynch mob’s only moved from strength to strength. Read on.

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Well almost “A-Team”…and it’s going to demand a standout on-screen performance from Liam Neeson to supplant George Peppard‘s memorable cigar-chomping steely image in our minds as the no-b.s., Wilkinson-sword sharp, always resolute under Katrina-force hurricane pressure, Col. John “Hannibal” Smith. Remember that dude? I certainly do. There I go dating myself again…

Anyways, the following sites are the five hot spots I check in with daily for my regular fill of Chinese blogging dish.

Thanks to the magic of global time zones coupled with the fact that the People’s Republic is well into early afternoon by the time I hunker down at the desk, mornings here in the Sketch Republic are usually flush with RSS content treasure as I kick off my daily grind at the warren. That means, I’ve got a heap of catching up to do within as short a stretch as possible, and believe me, every day it’s a delectable challenge.

Reading posts at these sites makes blogging all the more worthwhile. So come with me and learn why the following five are the gold standard of the English-language Chinese blogosphere.

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