Here's a nice profile of Ben Liebman, a fellow Chinese law professor at Columbia. It has some interesting points about Ben's work on Chinese courts.

A nice bit of reporting by David Brooks in the New York Times.  Brooks attended one of those intelligentsia meetings (this one was the Aspen Ideas Festival — I wonder if Tom Friedman was there?) where China policy was discussed.
Luckily for the reality-based community, Jim Fallows was there providing counterpoint to Niall Ferguson, who was [...]

China may allow foreign firms with investments inside the country to list domestically, as part of efforts to boost trader confidence during the global downturn, according to an official.
"We will continue to actively work with relevant authorities to study and complete the policy of allowing foreign-invested companies to list in the country," Vice Commerce Minister [...]