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CN Reviews is a general China blog that broadly explores China's Internet culture, technology and society...especially the Chinese blogosphere, social and tech trends.  Contributing editors include: David Feng (Beijing), Kai Pan (Shanghai), Min Guo (Shanghai), and Elliott Ng (Silicon Valley).

Richard @ The Peking Duck, one of my long-time RSS subscriptions, recently linked to a New York Times’ piece titled “The End of the Financial World as We Know It” written by Michael Lewis, blessing it as “the single best piece” he’s found to explain the current global financial crisis, urging his readers to read [...]

CNReviews 2008 Summary > Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3
Sorry, we’re not done with the 2008 retrospectives yet.  Why the lengthy, 自我自恋 (self-referentially narcissistic) posts about 2008?  Because it will help us figure out what we should focus on in 2009.  It was a successful 1st year for CNReviews, but we failed to [...]

Have you heard of this blog Wo Shi Laowai - Wo Pa Shui before?
Overall Winner of the China Blog Awards
Chinalyst just announced the winners in their annual popularity contest, China Blog Awards, 2008.  The overall winner is a blog called:  Wo Shi Laowai - Wo Pa Shui. You can find the blog at mylaowai.com:

The blog [...]

Closer to home — here’s a look at Eight Big Things that was, and still remains big, the way I — David Feng — see things…
Too Revolutionary To Forget: Apple Store Opening
When seven Mac revolutionaries started this thing called the Beijing Macintosh User Group about six years ago, one of the first thing we were [...]

CNReviews 2008 Summary > Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3
What an incredible, historic year.  In CNReviews’ 1st year, we experienced what is likely to be one of the most memorable years in recent history for China and world.  Part One covers from late December 2007 to April 2008. Part Two will covers May [...]

The year 2008’s coming to an end — and 2009’s coming out of the starting gate real soon. Time for the obligatory review: eight things for ‘08 that we’re not forgetting anytime soon…
Too Painful To Forget: Wenchuan
When 14:28 came on May 12, 2008, the earth shook virtually like never before in Sichuan. Thousands, and then [...]

As 2008 winds down to its last gasping breaths here in China, I look forward to 2009 with a mixture of relief and anticipation. Relief because 2008 has arguably been a roller-coaster ride of a year, with disasters and tragedies both natural and man-made, as well as brilliant bright moments of hope and aspiration. Anticipation [...]

I just remember the first time I went to Tianjin in recent memory — 2004. I won’t use the word “crap” here, but neither I nor my ex-girlfriend came back to the ‘Jing impressed by what we saw. The traffic was chaotic (a far cry from Beijing’s gridlike street layout), things just went totally off [...]

Planting the seeds of a new Asian reserve currency
Via Bill’s Shared Items, I encountered a People’s Daily article entitled “Renminbi likely to be used as currency for forex reserves” dated 12/25/2008.  Wu Xiaoling, who is deputy director of the Finance and Economic Committee in the National People’s Congress, announced this pilot program to allow RMB [...]

I’m dreaming of a white Christmas…
Just like the ones I used to know…
Where — the –
you know, you see freeways shuttin’
truck lines pilin’, pilin’‘n’ pilin’
drivers grabbin’ those noodles ‘n’ dinin’
dined and wined and bowl goes for the dumpin’
on the freeway ramps, nowhere goin’
or leadin’ you more to trucks a-pilin’…

Is this the harmonious / harmonized [...]