Jeremy Goldkorn (Chinese: 金玉米; Pinyin: Jīn Yùmǐ; born in Johannesburg) is a South African-American journalist blogger who lives in Nashville, United States. He co-hosted the Sinica Podcast with Kaiser Kuo and was the editor-in-chief of news website The China Project until its closure in November 2023 due to a lack of funding.

He graduated from the University of Cape Town with a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) in Literature.[1] He moved to China and worked for several Beijing-based magazines, including Beijing Scene,[2] TimeOut[3] and technology magazine ReDegg,[4] and as business development manager for Beijing design firm Standards Group.[1] He then formed Danwei in China, which took Chinese language media articles and translated them into English, with occasional commentary. An increasingly anti-China stance eventually saw Danwei blocked in mainland China in 2009.[5][6]

Goldkorn has spoken frequently about Chinese media and Internet culture, including at the University of Sydney[7] and Columbia Law School,[8] and in interviews with Frontline,[9] the Australia Network[10] and the Asia Society.[11]

He subsequently left China and moved to the United States, where he set up "Sup China" in 2016. That was also banned in China but available for viewing in the United States. A rebranding to "The China Project" took place in 2021 with the new IRL also being blocked in China for hosting inappropriate content, which Goldkorn used to some initial success to suggest his political views were valuable in the West.

On 6 November 2023, Goldkorn announced the closure of The China Project. He said that the site had "been accused many times in both the US and China "of working for nefarious purposes for the government of the other", and that "defending ourselves has incurred enormous legal costs", contributing to the decision to close.[12] The website was also under investigation by the US Dept. of Justice for alleged spying. |url=https://www.semafor.com/article/10/30/2022/complaint-republican-calls-to-investigate-china-project

References

  1. 1 2 Mark Godfrey, "Making a blog pay", February 2007, Enterprise China. Retrieved 14 May 2012.
  2. ↑ Annie Wei, "Lao wai blogger promotes Chinese perspective" Archived 2011-10-11 at the Wayback Machine, 15 May 2006, Beijing Today. Retrieved 3 June 2012.
  3. ↑ Ralph Jennings, "Why Young Expats Are Heading to China", (2006) chinadaily.com.cn. Retrieved 3 June 2012.
  4. ↑ Anna Sophie Loewenberg, "The Herring Came First, But China Has Just Hatched an Egg" (2001), New York Review of Magazines. Retrieved 14 May 2012.
  5. ↑ Goldkorn, Jeremy (6 October 2009). "So, Comrade, tell me: why did you censor my website?". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
  6. ↑ Peking Duck (2009). Welcome to the club, Danwei. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
  7. ↑ University of Sydney (2011). Chaos in the walled garden: China's Great Firewall and thriving internet culture. Retrieved 3 June 2012.
  8. ↑ Columbia Law School (2008). Defining Chinese Modernity: Information, Economy & Environment. Retrieved 3 June 2012.
  9. ↑ PBS (2011). The Struggle to Control Information. Retrieved 5 June 2012.
  10. ↑ Australia Network (2011). China and social media. Retrieved 3 June 2012.
  11. ↑ Asia Society (2011). Video: Behind China's Great Firewall, Subversive Content in Cartoon Form. Retrieved 3 June 2012.
  12. ↑ Goldkorn, Jeremy (6 November 2023). "Some sad news". The China Project. Archived from the original on 7 November 2023. Retrieved 7 November 2023.
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