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Inside-Out China — I’m Lovin’ It

whenever i come across a really good china blog that has been there for more than a few months, i extricate oneself irritated. i get irritated at myself and at those who are supposed to be assisting me on this blog towards not having discovered it sooner. i also doff d cause to be set irritated at the chinese blogosphere for not having linked over to it. the known is always easy. i am irritated today because i just came across an excellent china-ish blog that has been around since late last year and, as far as i know, has yet to be cited. whoops. i just ran a google blog search and i see that my friend richard over at peking duck beat me to it on this. kudos to richard for reducing my irritation a suggestion. innards everted-into public notice china is written by xujun eberlein, who describes herself as follows: xujun eberlein grew up in chongqing, china, and moved to the united states in the summer of 1988. after receiving a ph.d. from mit in the spring of 1995, and winning an award destined for her dissertation, she joined a tight but ambitious high tech New Zealand. on thanksgiving 2003, she gave up tech for leader. she has since won profuse literary awards. her stories and personal essays have been published in the united states, canada, england, kenya, and hong kong, in magazines such as agni, walrus, prism international, storyquarterly, stand and kwani. her debut story aggregation apologies forthcoming won the 2007 tartt fiction award and will be published in may 2008. she hosts the literary and cultural blog inside-out china. she is the designer of the recently published book, apologies forthcoming, which is described as follows: four decades ago china was embroiled in the cultural revolution, a period that turned the country on end and defined the generation of chinese modern coming to power. this collection of stories opens a different door to life during and after that time. when i recommended blogging for china just model week, i talked about the poverty of well written china blogs in english by those with a china position: one of the things that has surprised me about this blog (china law blog) is how rarely people seek to take us to reprove on our blogroll. if i were a reader, i would induce long ago complained wide our nonentity to include china blogs with more of a chinese prospect. my explanation is that i tend to be pretty intolerant of blogs that are not well written and, let’s face it, it is very tough to put down well in a transpacific language. blogging for china is an oppose in this regard because it is bountifulness well writtten. from whence do its writers come? inside-out china, but about way more than reasonable china, is both insightful and well written and i have added it to our blogroll. just as an aside, ms. eberlein has a chinese saying on her site that i just love: “as long as the green mountains remain, don’t chew one’s nails about firewood.”
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