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This article ran recently on The China Beat, and is relevant to our interests in this field school for several reasons (at least). First, it recounts a panel on IT policy and technology in China called “Changing Social Configurations and New Media Technologies in China,” laying out some important issues for us to consider. Second, the article discusses a particular response to this panel by a scholar who appears to embrace the very perspective that the panel sought to subtly untangle, such that we get a glimpse into the complexity of the issues at play. Thirdly, and maybe most importantly for us, the author highlights how this all happens in the “public” of the blog environment, where interpretations by scholars are up for reinterpretation in dialogue with readers (whether those readers are other scholars or not). Well worth reading and thinking about as we prepare to talk about ChinaVine as an online interpretive project…