Many of you who know my wife and me, know of our love for China – our precious daughter, Christina, is Chinese. It is because of our love of the country, its respect for it’s elderly, its strong family bonds, cultural flavor and wonderful food that I pause every time I come across an article or blog post related to the country.

@Shelisrael on Twitter this evening tweeted a link to an article that is based on an interview of an individual who is considered China’s first blogger and first appeared in the U.K.’s Guardian newspaper. The article is entitled “China’s first blogger on the Chinese blogosphere.”

Isaac Mao, who recently spoke at the Guardian’s Future of Journalism Conference, discusses “his six years of blogging in the P.R.C., touching on the topics of personal publishing in China, censorship, his experience getting ‘harmonized,’ the interaction between social media and mainstream media, Google’s missteps in China, online fame, privacy issues and the overall impact blogging is having on Chinese people and Chinese society at large.”

It’s a fascinating read – give it a read when you have a moment.