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.
From MarketWatch: Baidu.com Inc., the Chinese operator of an Internet-search engine, said Chief Financial Officer Shawn Wang died in an accident while vacationing in China on Thursday. A statement from the company on Saturday gave no further details on the accident. Wang joined the company as CFO in September 2004; he’d previously been a partner […]
Read MoreFor months, human rights activists in Los Angeles have been trying to drum up support for a boycott of the Beijing 2008 float scheduled to take part in the city’s famous New Year’s day Rose Parade. To no avail, according to the LA Times: The lukewarm response underscores the increasingly close relationship Southern California shares […]
Read MoreIn a moment of fury that has quickly become the talk of the Chinese Internet, the scorned wife of a well-known Chinese TV host recently proved there is no problem in China that cannot be profitably tied to the Olympics. From Global Voices: Friday was meant to be a big day for China’s main sports […]
Read MoreIn what might be called green management with Chinese characteristics, officials in southern China have decided to punish a handful of environmental offenders, not just with fines, but also by forcing them to publish a letter of apology on Thursday in the local party newspaper: The remorseful enterprises in Zhejiang included two paper mills, two […]
Read MoreHundreds of enraged students at Tianjin’s Nankai University recently battered the bejesus out of a black Buick sedan in an incident that suggests the oft-noted imperiousness of China’s new moneyed class is not just aggravating to those on the lowest rungs of the country’s economic ladder. According to a post on one of Nankai’s BBS […]
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