Bamboo Leaks is an independent publication covering the technology of China. Western coverage of China’s tech sector tends to swing between breathless hype and reflexive fear — we do neither. Our work is to report it clearly and accurately, sorting the signal from the noise.

Our mission

The name is a nod to the Bamboo Curtain — the barrier of opacity around China — and to the information that gets through it. We bring what matters through that curtain, and help readers understand Chinese technology on the evidence, not the panic. Depth and accuracy over spin, in the timeless clarity of classic broadsheet journalism.

The writer

Jin has spent a career inside China’s biggest tech companies, and studied Chinese interpretation. China’s tech, in the original, past the hype and the fear.