How has the China blog scene changed in the last two years? If you’re curious about the state of affairs too, join Kaiser Kuo and Jeremy Goldkorn in our studio today as we are delighted to host two of the younger and more influential bloggers writing on China today: Eric Fish from the Economic Observer who gravitates to more analytic pieces at Sinostand, and Anthony Tao from Beijing Cream, who specializes in shorter posts and high-quality snark on Chinese popular culture.

Clearly, CR in fact is a jealous Eric Fish.

In any case, faulting bloggers for a lack of social skills kind of misses the point. Many bloggers are geeks in my experience, which is why they are bloggers in the first place!

After two decades in East Asia, I have found that nothing inspires petty resentments like the success of other expats. Some call it the “tall poppy syndrome.” I prefer to call it “being a bloody wanker.”

If “CuntasaurusRex” were a real man, he’d post under his real name. And if I were Anthony Tao, I’d give him a nice crack in the schnoz the next time I saw him. I mean, if someone was talking smack like that to you at a bar, what else would you do?

And no one else there would blame you at all.

Boy, some people in BJ really take themselves seriously. Do they act like that in SH too? I have never seen anything like the insular, incestuous comments threads that some of these posts generate.

Number of months Beijing Cream has run advertising adverts for it’s own website: 6
Number of actual advertisers: Zero

Says it all really.

He is afraid basically. Afraid of getting blocked like his ill-fated group blog China Divide, which was poorly named in the first place, seriously wtf? Dumb name. I guess Custer is ok, don’t read him myself, but it went downhill quick after that.

Sometimes I go to Stan’s site but its always too tedious and pretentious, not to mention pitiful the way he kowtows to the Party.

Two recent highlights:

1. Western media is bad for talking to a ‘certain blind lawyer’ who can’t be named because Stan is afraid of banned keywords, in their article about China’s justice system. His case does not prove the system is broken because civil courts exist (in other words, business law actually works to some extent therefore this one high-profile case (and let’s quietly ignore ALL THE OTHER similar cases) doesn’t tell us anything about China’s justice system. Oh look, amendments to the civil procedure law! What glorious progress!
http://www.chinahearsay.com/note-to-media-high-profile-criminal-cases-are-not-representative-of-chinas-judicial-system/

2. This is the one that made me close my browser last time I went over there. Get this: Using weasel words, Stan says, well sure the government and judges and police are all corrupt, and the censors protect them, and somebody ought to deal with that. But what Stan thinks is really important is how bad it is that the vast populace online tries to affect outcomes in legal matters. Yes, that should stop right now because that’s the biggest problem out there.

So, the only mechanism that actually works in China to try and create more justice in this country is the real problem, according to Stan.

http://www.chinahearsay.com/china-online-mob-does-it-again/

Read em and weep for one man’s integrity.

He works in Sichuan Province, you know. He went all the way to Beijing just to get his free beer.

Meet people? Socialize? Not important. Give him his beer now!

You got a free beer and a chance to meet some interesting people at a hip bar in Beijing and you’re still complaining? Were you expecting to be fellated by the host as well?

I’m surprised you weren’t bounced at the door. That psychotic gleam in your eyes shouldn’t be hard to miss, but perhaps everyone else was too busy having a good time to notice or care.

Next time. Happy New Year.

p.s. the event was not the “Sunday before Christmas.” It was a week before.

[Rolls eyes]

I came quite a long way to attend that and you turned out to be a cheapskate big mouth, that’s all.
Happy New Year.