Housekeeping update

Just wanted to update everyone on our latest round of upgrades.

First, a warm welcome to ethnographer & sociologist Tricia Wang for joining our team here. As you may have noticed below, she’s already started on her first post. You can read more about her on her website or her work over on Bytes of China. I first ran into her work back in 2005 at YouMeiTI 有媒体 , and Lyn’s known her for even longer than that.

Secondly, as we’ve passed our third birthday (though it’s approaching six years if you count our previous Virtual China blog), we’ve expanded our About section to include a more comprehensive mission statement and history section.

Lastly, we’ve updated our left sidebar quite a bit – there’s now a much belated Archives section, a Twitter feed of updates and an email newsletter of updates, so you don’t need to rely on RSS anymore.

I’m extremely excited about the change, and we may have more good news to share soon!