Gone Fishing (in China)

By Matthew Yglesias

So . . . I’m flying to China as you read this. The trip I’m going on is the same one Chris Hayes took last year to produce this article sponsored by the China-US Exchange Foundation. I’ll be back on June 2, and I’m very excited about the trip. I love to travel and I’m very interested in the world abroad, but have never been to China or the region more generally. Obviously once you start looking on a map it turns out that “China” is the name of a pretty giant place and it’s utter hubris to think you could learn or understand much based on a brief trip. But still, you’ve got to start somewhere.

At any rate, as regular readers know I love to blog and don’t intend to stop just because I’m traveling. But given the time zones, some uncertainty about my schedule, and the vagaries of Chinese internet access I thought it would be the better part of wisdom to line up some guest-bloggers to carry the load while I’m gone. I’m very excited about the team and I think I’ll let them introduce themselves over the weekend.