China Blog: The End

@Simon

Hopefully you will grow into a mature journalists with a balanced view. Your cold war mind is preventing you from presenting a real China to your readers at the moment.

Good luck.

Simon: Very sorry to hear that! Look forward to your next incarnation.

Where is johnsmith9876. The west wind is waiting for you.

This seems like quite a snippy last post. It's a shame that you couldn't resist a few snide remarks.

You have "mostly" enjoyed doing this. Well thanks so much. It must be frightfully hard to live in China under the auspices of such a prestigious publication, be well paid and write a few comments on a blog. I feel your pain.

There was a lot of "purile drivel" - do you think! It's a blog! Of course there was loads of rubbish written by nutters, that's par for the course. Just ignore them and don't dignify them with responses or lower the tone of your final post by complaining about them. I'd have thought that as a journalist your ego would be somewhat more robust that than to sign off with such an adolescent swipe.

really? then we can just read the shanghaist blog, it seems thats where the majority of the china blog stories came from. check it out for yourself, china blog has been mostly a rehash. seems like time inc certainly is cutting costs these days.

One of the good things about recessions is that you are forced to trim fat. Well, I'm glad a slice of cancerous gourd has been dumped as a result of this recession. Here is proof that some good do come out of difficult times...

Good Luck Simon, thanks for being a beacon of democratic honesty and integrity!

Time's landfill site is closing off.

Thank God it's time!

My sympathy goes to the China-bashing clan. Now they have to find another place to dump their "democratic" waste.

For that, my sympathy also goes to the "landfill site" to be.

Dear Simon,

As a reader following this blog for a long time, I'd like to take this last chance to say good bye and give some advices to you. If you have any chance in the future, please travel more in China, talk more to ordinary Chinese people, not just some so called "dissenters" or "activists of human rights". When you are not in China, talk more to the students from mainland of China, to know their true feelings and thoughts about China, democracy, etc. You are like the journalist James Reynolds of BBC, who stayed in China for 3 years and had a "China blog" too. I think he did a little bit better work than you. At least he did learn something about China's history, culture, people.

I just read an article on Time. The title is: China's 60th Birthday: The Road to Prosperity. The author is David Shambaugh. Here is the link:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1924366,00.html

It seems that David Shambaugh really knows about China from this article. I suggest you talk to him.

Good luck.

Hi Simon,

I have been following this blog for quite a while. Although the heated discussions in the comment section have deterred me from wanting to post a comment and sometimes left me in frustration, I would like to thank you and all your colleagues for the good works you guys have done in this blog. I haven't been back to china for a long time and you interesting articles have helped me look at it from a different perspective which I can't otherwise perceive through chinese news media. Thank you.

Cheers

The Wumaos will lose their jobs.

The China Blog:

I came back here after a months' absence, or exactly, your block. Out of my mind, what I see is your scramming, quite ironic! Unfortunately, your compromise of censoring me and things like that could not escape from the fate---your bending knees were not enough to the CCP,who is still going on banning you in China. "The China Blog" can not be seen by Chinese, so any reason to last anymore?

I have many reasons to gloat, but I don't. I think even I will somewhat yearn, not for your writing, but the wonderful remarks written by a handful of geniuses.

[...] lamakarma, commenter on the (closing) Time China Blog, September 18 [...]

@chinabriefing

Any views that are different from yours are not nomal, certainly the people who have different views (from yours) are barbaric and finally the country that is different from your ideal is barbaric.

Who is so barbaric to think this way???

conscienceinchina: I respect your views, but many of your entries amounted to spam. I can only agree with the decision to "censor" you. You are incredibly self-important. If you can't take a critical look at yourself once in a while, don't criticize others.

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---the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee notifies

IT WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER IF JOURNALISM & MEDIA IN CHINA WOULD ALSO BE SHAKEN FROM THEIR LONG SLEEP pressurised UNDER ANCIENT LAWS OF THEIR GOVT.

oh that's so sad!

It is sad, I will miss Liam especially. For alteratives, I'd recommend as follows:
For China Business:
China Briefing: Business, operations, law & tax issues
http://www.china-briefing.com/news, from Shanghai, Beijing & Guangzhou, the granddaddy of 'em all;
On The Ground Corporate: Jack Perkowski's memoirs: http://www.managingthedragon.com;
Culture: Ernie Diaz over at http://www.chinaexpat.com - this guy cracks me up!;
Asia: http://www.2point6billion.com has been one of the better and up and coming blogs, especially China/India;
http://www.allroadsleadtochina: Logistics and hardware, based in Shanghai.
Adios guys and thanks for sharing your views.
Muchos appreciados
Steve

@Steve, I agree the China Briefing site is probably the obvious quality alternative to go to. You may not know they also do an Indian one as well:
http://www.india-briefing.com/news

Both that and http://www.china-briefing.com/news are about the best original regional business news stuff out there now. I also like the 2point6billion perspective.

But its better if Time (as they indicated was a possibility) came back. I guess the China Firewall did it in.