Photo: Stock Market
Chinese traders watch the stock ticker, from Ryan T.’s China stock market documentary photo project.
Read MoreZhaohua 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.
A Bid for Better Military Relations with China
In a visit that seems destined to get lost in the media shadow cast by the presence in Beijing of India’s prime minister, US military officials are set to fly to China to deal with a souring of the cross-Pacific military...
Read MoreChina Growth May Slow at Worst Time for World Economy
For years economists have warned China needs to do more to keep its economic growth from spiraling out of control. Now, with the country’s leaders finally showing signs they may be able to rein in the beast, Bloomberg...
Read MoreGreat (or Not) Expectations for the China-India Summit
The list of issues hanging over Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Beijing positively boggles the mind: Indian displeasure over China’s alliances with Pakistan and Burma, Chinese displeasure with...
Read MoreSo Yellow, So Violent – John Kennedy
It only took a week for the Chinese Internet to give birth to its first major controversy of 2008: CCTV’s broadcasting of an interview with 13-year-old girl who described accidentally coming across a web page that was “very yellow (vulgar) and very violent” (很黄，很暴力). Global Voices has an excellent summary: ‘Websites pop themselves up?’ wondered […]
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