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Blogging about China has taken off in recent years.

Chinese Internet users create the same kind of blogs as people all around the world do. Whether they are written in Hanzi or English, the majority of Chinese blogs are just as boring to read as your Aunt Millie's annual Christmas letter.

Laowai expats living in the PRC blog too...too damn much!
And apparently there is some unwritten rule that anyone who visits China, even just for a day, must post a fucking banal boring blog of their exploits while in the Middle Kingdom. 

The China Tattler says: "Give us a freaking break already!"

Most of the work produced by foreign bloggers writing in China about the country makes the Tattler cringe. It's bad.
It sucks. A lot of it is repetitive drivel that a thousand other bloggers have already written.

The Tattler doesn't give a flying fuck about the emotions experienced by proud new adoptive parents during their two week trip to Hefei in Anhui to pick up their latest acquisition. Nor does he want to read the racist postings about Chinese People made by disillusioned beer-swilling Australian or Liverpudlian bloggers teaching English in Changsha or Suzhou. He certainly is fed up with the naive intellectual posturing blogged by all the self-proclaimed hip young Americans partying all night in Shanghai on their rich Daddies' dimes. And don't even get the Tattler started on all the blogs written by stinking rich fly-by-night entrepreneurs who sell their pronouncements about doing business in China for hefty subscription fees to the suckers...er...folks back home anxious to break into a new market.

There is an old saying. It might even be Chinese..: "A wise man says a lot with few words, while a fool says nothing with many words." The same holds true for both wise and foolish bloggers in China.

The best blogs about China are usually written by keen observers with proven track records in  the fields of journalism, business, government, or academia. They are written by people who have usually lived and worked in China for several years and have specialised knowledge to share with readers in creative and novel ways on a daily basis.  

The worst blogs about China are written by adoptive parents on a baby run, boozed up immature party animals congregated in Shanghai, and washed up failures teaching English in the PRC because they can't get jobs back in their own countries. These bloggers are usually short-timers in China without a clue and don't have any real insights worth reading. For the most part, their blogs are started upon first arriving in China. Undistinguished, unimaginative, and lacking any originality, the blogs soon die from apathy.

And if that opinion offends any of the short-time hacks, well, so be it. Someone has to wake them from their fantasy worlds...their ramblings are for the most part crap. Someone has to tell the self-indulgent wankers that they are not Mother Teresa saving the world one baby at a time or a Hemingway living as a literary exile on the left bank of Paris in the 1920's. Modern China cannot be summed up in a 100 word badly written blog entry about the latest fake Rolex  bought, or taking home a hot Chinese babe from a local expat hangout and getting a  leg over,  or how much Baijiu was overpaid for the night before.

The China Tattler has compiled links to some of  the best written and most informative blogs about China...but if you want to read about Ryan's babalicious exploits in Shuzhou, or Dan and Marie's new China Bug Baby, you'll have to find those blogs on your own...we don't link to crap.  

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