Friday, September 09, 2005

Publishing!

For the past month, I've been shopping around an essay about China and the Internet to a bunch of daily newspapers, with no luck. But yesterday, someone bit, and it looks like the essay will publish next week.

After that happens, I'll give more details about the topic and the difficulties I experienced shopping it around. The essay relates to something I initially wrote about in this blog, and a few readers may be interested in how I shaped a rough idea in a blog into a more coherent and polished (and publishable) essay.

Of course, when people talk about "publishing" in academics, it almost always relates to journals, but in this case I felt a newspaper was a better forum. Academic journals will come later, especially once my thesis gets underway.

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