China Law Blog

One of the things I truly love about blogging on China is the interesting people I meet. One of those is Eutak (Tak for short), a software guy from Singapore who spent many years working for Microsoft here in the Pacific Northwest and then in Beijing. Tak and I share a love for running/walking/biking around Green Lake here in Seattle and, more importantly, a reverence for the baked goods from Hiroki's bakery and for great sushi everywhere.

Tak has an excellent China tech blog, called, appropriately enough, China Tech Blog, of which I am a regular reader. This blog focuses on "Chinese Internet, software, and information technology." Tak also has a super cool Web 2.0 site called funtouristattractions that really nicely sets out tourist attractions, historical attractions, cultural attractions, restaurants, hotels, nightlife, architecture, and shopping on interactive maps of Shanghai, Beijing, Qingdao, and Shenzhen. I checked out Qingdao on the site and was hugely impressed (in other words, I mostly agreed with the picks). There is a surprising paucity of helpful sites for tourists going to China and this one certainly helps fill the gap.