China Law Blog

CLB's own Steve Dickinson will be a panelist on the very soon upcoming CNbloggercon in Beijing this weekend at the Tsinghua Technology Park Conference Center. Steve will be talking about the legal issues of blogging within China.

Steve's panel (and Steve himself) will be speaking Chinese and most information on the conference is in Chinese. This is a huge annual event (biggest such event in China, I believe) and this is the third one, first in Beijing. For more on what other bloggers are saying on the event, click here, here, here, and/or here.

Due to the potentially sensitive nature of the subjects on which Steve and his fellow panelists will be talking (hint, it starts with the letter c), it was nip and tuck right up to the last minute as to whether that panel would go on at all. Hence, our extremely late notice.

I am hoping someone will be live blogging in English on this event or at least reporting back on it fairly regularly. If someone finds such postings, please let us know.

UPDATE: Steve just emailed me from his Blackberry: "Last session tomorrow. Legal is sensitive so not really advertised." Tomorrow means Sunday, November 4, China time. Don't anyone dare miss it.

SECOND UPDATE: Steve's session will be at 5:20 pm.