Zhaohua Li

Zhaohua Li is an American-born independent journalist based in Beijing. He has written on Asia for the Christian Science Monitor, the San Francisco Chronicle and Frommer's guidebooks, among other publications. He is currently also a Blakemore-Freeman fellow in Chinese language studies at Tsinghua University. His interests in China run from the energy and the environment to media and pop culture.

Film Rating System = No Fun

Amidst the many policy rumor denials coming out of this year’s NPC meeting, the proclamation from Liu Binjie (director of the General Administration of Press and Publications) that China won’t be introducing a movie...

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China Tempers Olympic Medal Expectations

A bid from the upper reaches of China’s athletic power structure to reduce the likelihood of mass psychological break-down for China’s Olympic team, from AP via the New York Times: Deputy Sports Minister Cui Dalin...

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Hack into Freedom City

Thanks to a truly remarkable translation job by John Kennedy at Global Voices, we now have easy access to an equally remarkable document currently circulating through the Chinese blogger networks. Called ‘Hack into Freedom...

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China Fast Becoming the World’s Shipyard

Looks like we might soon be adding another superlative to the Chinese economy’s already swollen list. From AFP: “Last year, the order books at Chinese shipyards surpassed those of Japan, to be second only to South...

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