China Blogs: That's The way, Uh-Huh Uh-Huh, We Like It, Uh-Huh, Uh-Huh. Part VI.

About four months ago, in Part I of this series, I promised we would go through our blogroll and justify and expound upon each blog, five by five. A couple of months ago, I did part V of this series. This is the sixth of this slowly running series, where I explain, in alphabetical order, why it is that each blog managed to qualify for our blogroll under our admittedly "slippery, vague, and subjective criteria:"

Our blogroll basically consists of those blogs we like and which we think our readers will like or should be reading. We tend to like blogs that are unique in their content, well written, or consistently helpful. If we really like a blog, it makes it on no matter what. The less we like the blog, the more we have to believe it can be helpful to our readers. If a blog has not posted for a couple of months, we start seriously consider removing it from the rolls. Three months and it is usually removed. We obviously focus on China related blogs and, within that, we generally focus on those blogs related to law or business.

So without further ado, the sixth five in our alphabetical list:

China Hearsay. China Hearsay is written by my friend and fellow lawyer, Stan Abrams, who has been practicing law, mostly on the IP side, in China since 1999. It is subtitled, China law, business & economics commentary, and that's exactly what it is. Nearly daily, Stan provides us with insightful comments on China, with a much more political and social slant than this blog. I never miss a post and I urge you to do the same. Stan has recently branched out to form one third of the triumvirate writing for the new China/divide blog.

China Solved. China Solved drives me nuts. It is an excellent blog written by another friend of mine, Andrew Hupert. Andrew describes himself as "an experienced management consultant based in Shanghai. Previous to setting up house in Shanghai almost 6 years ago, Andrew lived in Taipei, Hong Kong and New York. In addition to consulting for MNCs in Shanghai and writing about China success strategies, Andrew lectures at New York University's Shanghai campus on international negotiation." All true but probably too modest. Andrew is an NYU MBA who really knows China business and does a great job writing on it. I swear that I end up writing on about half of Andrew's posts, which is probably a higher percentage than any other blog. So why does it drive me nuts? Because Andrew has a disconcerting tendency to get really busy and not write anything on his blog; his last post was about a month ago. But stay with it for the gems.

Chinalyst. Chinalyst is not really a blog. It is essentially a blog amalgamator that provides "a steady stream of updates from member blogs writing about China." It is a good place to go to keep up on the China blogosphere (particularly newer blogs) and every year it puts on its own best of China blog competition.

China Sourcing Blog. The China Sourcing Blog is put out by The Beijing Axis, which describes itself as "a cross-border business bridge to/from China in three principal areas: Strategy, Sourcing and Investment." This blog is a great source for studies and statistics on China manufacturing and business.

China Tax Insights. Matthew McKee, an Australian tax lawyer based in Beijing is the force behind China Tax Insights. Though I pride myself on hating tax law, I am a regular reader of Matthew's blog because, unfortunately, the importance of tax law to China business has been and will continue to increase exponentially.

More to come....

What do you think?