My blogroll has finally got a bit unwieldy for the sidebar, and I've been getting complaints from people who read Imagethief on BlackBerries (which apparently break the formatting). So I've shifted the blogroll over to this separate page. The upside is that I can add some annotation.

The blogs and websites here are all ones that either I read regularly, think are occasionally useful, or seldom read but think may be of interest to my readers. I've tried to segregate them into a few general categories. I do take link requests, and I'll add a link if the site meets one of the three criteria above (no guarantees). I generally watch new blogs for six or eight weeks to make sure they keep momentum and I like the content before adding them to the roll. Got something you think I should look at? Drop me a line.

For more background information on Imagethief see "About the Imagethief Blog" and "Who is Imagethief?".

A-List China Blogs 

These are the blogs that Imagethief himself reads on a more or less daily basis. If I had to limit myself to just a few blogs, these would be the ones I'd take, plus a couple of the journalist blogs listed separately below. If you want a good survey of business, media and life in China, these blogs are a fine place to start. Two or three journalist blogs are duplicated on this list and the journalist list.

China Blog Aggregators and Indexes

These are sites that aggregate other China blogs or news. I'm particularly fond of the Hao Hao Report, which goes beyond simply scraping or syndicating.

Business & Tech China Blogs

Pretty self explanatory. All of these blogs focus on doing business in China or on technology and the Internet in China. They're all good, but I am particularly fond of Tangos Chan's China Web 2.0 Review, Kaiser Kuo's Ogilvy China's Digital Watch, CNET's Little Red Blog (disclosure: I use to write that, although it's now kept by the capable Rick Martin), and Paul Denlinger's China Vortex.

Journalists' China Blogs

There has been something of a pre-Olympic explosion of journalist blogs. Some are kept by individuals and some by whole bureaus. They all offer a somewhat different perspective than what goes on the page, but a few of them are noticeably more personal in nature. Those happen to be the ones that I like, and include Richard Spencer's blog, Tim Johnson's blog, and James Fallow's blog (although, perhaps in keeping with Atlantic Monthly policy, Fallows' blog has no comments). Also I should give a pointer to the China Economic Review (CER) Editors' blog since I write for those guys from time to time.

General China Blogs

When I started keeping this site this was a much smaller list. Four years have really done a lot for the China blogosphere. Some of my favorites are John Pasden's Sinosplice, Fons Tuinstra's China Herald, Ryan McLaughlin's "The Humanaught", Brendan O'Kane's blog (although he only posts occasionally), Sexy Beijing (home of great videos about Beijing) and the relatively new and totally unique Beijing Sounds. I'm also recently interested in "Blog for China", which presents a Chinese point of view on current events. There are plenty of other good ones as well. Don't miss the recent created and very entertaining China Smack, at the bottom of the list.

China Websites of Interest

Magazines, newsletters, travel and analytical sites devoted to China. Also, on the lighter side, "Me Old China", which is somewhere between website and blog and is kept by a nameless journalist with a good sense of humor. 

Chinese Propaganda Art Websites

An area of personal interest. Special props for Stefan Landsberger, the dean of China propaganda poster experts and keeper of one of the most valuable online archives of such images. I often raid Stefan's sites for images for blog posts and he has always been most gracious about this. 

Friends and Family Websites
Media, Censorship and Public Relations Blogs and Websites

As a student of media and propaganda these are sites that interest me for various reasons. Particularly useful for people in China are the China Media Project and China Media. Also, Andrew Lih writes a lot about Wikipedia, but he's also Beijing based. 

Good non-China Blogs

Stuff I follow but that doesn't fit into the China blog categories. Global Voices has a great China section and is well worth following. Anyone interested in technology or security issues should check out Bruce Schneier's blog as well. I read it every day.