Jeffrey Wasserstrom sums up the best posts about China from around the web in 2010:
I have come up with a dozen that seem particularly worth reading — or re-reading if you caught them the first time around — and then thrown in bonus “track,” published on the first day of 2011, to bring the total up to a baker’s dozen. This is not meant to be a “best China writing of 2010” list, but more like a non-musical equivalent to an old-fashioned mix tape. The goal is to present an appealingly diverse set of readings that between them provide a window onto some of the main new Chinese developments, recurring Chinese phenomena, and China-related controversies of the year.
One of my main criteria for selection is that each piece continues to have some relevance at the start of 2011 (something I’ll highlight when introducing some of the links). Another is that it is available full-text free online (as of this writing at least). A third is that it each be written in English, since my aim is to provide Anglophone readers with an efficient and illuminating way to keep up with how China changed in 2010, though the value of some of the pieces chosen is obviously at least in part the window they open up onto Chinese language writers, publications, or debates.
