China Law Blog

Explanation required. 

When I started this blog nearly a year ago, I vowed our blogroll would be sacrosanct.  This is a blog about law and business in China and there would be no what I call observational blogs on my blogroll.  This blog would focus on business and the people who read it would have no time nor interest in reading about eating noodles at a restaurant in Xiamen. 

But a funny thing started happening. Thanks to the "more businesslike" blogs I am always reading, I was consistently getting directed to certain really good non-business oriented China blogs and, once there, I found myself coming back.  Finally, earlier this month, I broke down and added The Opposite End of China (with the internal excuse that I was only doing it because this is the only blog out there talking about China's far west).  Then, I added Eyes East because, well because the writing is excellent and I liked it and if Chris of Eyes East were to write about noodles, he would probably have something interesting to say about them.  I am now adding The Humannaught blog because, having added Eyes East on our blogroll, I no longer have a good reason not to.  In legal terms, this is known as precedent or the slippery slope. 

The Humannaught has something to say that goes well beyond noodles.  His was the only blog (or at least the first of which I am aware) to note the political and strategic irony of China's internet problems (from the earthquake in Taiwan) stemming from its dependency on Taiwan.  But what pushed me over the edge was when I found myself agreeing with the Granite Studio's description of The Humannaught as "one of the most consistently entertaining and enlightening blogs on the web."

Enjoy!