Substacks recommended by Chris Taylor

Recommended by Chris Taylor

Explorations of the China Comms world. Deep dives, essays, profiles and quick takes about Chinese state media, from someone who used to write it.

Chinese Cooking Demystified Substack

Recipes and other stuff maybe.

Han’s Substack

By Han Yang

My personal Substack

The East is Red

Covering the new Cold (Hot) War between the East and West.

Ground Truths

By Eric Topol

Facts, data and analytics about biomedical matters

Superb analysis of the unfolding train wreck that is Covid-19, and only when Eric has something to say that he clearly thinks is balanced and important. The pandemic not over.

- Chris Taylor

Mercy, Mercy, Mercy

By Joyce Linehan

Writing about a collection of songs, loosely organized around a theme. Frequency is about twice a week. Until I retire. Then watch out.

Look, you're often not going to particularly like the music, but, boy, it's discursive, and I learnt things. I recommend Mercy (etc) for its enthusiasm, dedicated pan-generational "nicheism" – and why not get some music in your inbox every day?

- Chris Taylor

Tracking People's Daily

By Manoj Kewalramani

This blog primarily offers a breakdown of the weekday editions of the People's Daily.

Chartbook

By Adam Tooze

A newsletter on economics, geopolitics and history from Adam Tooze. More substantial than the twitter feed. More freewheeling than what you might read from me in FT, Foreign Policy, New Statesman.

Pekingnology

By Zichen Wang

by Zichen Wang

Apart from the fact it's called Pekingnology not Pekingology I love the occasional nugget of plausible insiderly China tips.

- Chris Taylor

The Cleaver and the Butterfly

By Andrew Leonard

Sichuan food, globalization, and the Dao.

Sinocism

By Bill Bishop

Get smarter about China

Comprehensive and rarely too speculative on what transpires in Peking's corridors of power. Caveat: very insiderly and *perhaps* a little to "accommodating" but 100% engage and fascinating, even when you don't know what Bill is talking about, as I often don't. Bill Bishop challenges me on China. Respect to him for that.

- Chris Taylor