Through the <a href="http://members.shaw.ca/pnhpublic/China.html" title="The free Internet mailing list for the discussion of China travel.">Oriental List</a> mailing list, today I found out about two other mailing lists that may interest China watchers around the world.

The <a href="http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/chinaplanningnetwork" title="A Community interested in Chinese Development and Planning Issues">China Planning Network</a> is a mature list organized out of MIT that caters to folks <q>interested in Chinese Development and Planning Issues</q>.  I'll be signing up for this one; urban planning is something I caught a whiff of living among the politically active residents of a growing Ann Arbor.  It's really an interesting project, organizing and running an urban/rural community.

The second is a mailing list devoted to "<a href="http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/chinapreservation" title="List for those interested in Chinese Urban Preservation Issues">Chinese Urban Preservation Issues</a>"; I can bet you you'll see plenty of lively discussion of Beijing's <span lang="zh" class="pinyin">hutong</span>s on this one!  This e-mail list is just being founded, which is a great time to get in on a mailing list; during my time in Tianjin I spent a lot of time reading and contributing to the nascent <a href="http://www.css-discuss.org/" title="A mailing list devoted to talking about CSS and ways to use it in the real world.">css-discuss</a>, a list that played a big part in the resurgent popularity of cascading style sheets in professional web design.  So get yourself signed up, if this remotely interests you!