What we’ve been reading recently:

China Media Project - Conscience sold to the highest bidder in China’s “melamedia” - The role played by Chinese media in covering up the melamine scandal

The Green Leap Forward - China’s Coal Industry–MIT Report Challenges the Myths - A new report from MIT researches explains why new technology is not enough for China’s energy sector

Pomfret’s China - Is China Dismantling Its ‘Socialist’ Countryside? - China considers allowing farmers to become landlords

FT.com - Crisis marks out a new geopolitical order - Philip Stevens says the west can no longer assume the global order will be remade in its own image

The New Yorker - The Rationality of Panic - Why the panic surrounding the financial crisis is not “irrational,” as many claim

Silicon Hutong - Story of a Small Giant - Silicon Hutong on Chris Devonshire-Ellis’s “The Story of a China Practice”, which can now be downloaded for free (a nice touch)

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