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 BBC analyst adds to the long long list of bold, and contentious, predictions about China future: That it will eventually replace the U.S. as the world’s top higher education superpower. This week, an international audience gathered in London for the Worldwide Universities Network conference, was given a dramatic insight into just how rapidly China […]
Read MoreA proposed 2008 Games statue displayed on Wangfujing in Beijing, by Eugene Wei via Flickr.
Read More“Made in China” a ruined brand? Not so fast. New figures put China’s October trade surplus at $27.05 billion, an all-time monthly high. From the Associated Press: The General Administration of Customs said in a statement on its Web site that the October figure was up 13.5 percent from the same month a year ago. […]
Read MoreThat is AFP’s read on Chinese government plans, announced in the China Daily today, to manage foreign journalists who come to Beijing for the 2008 festivities. The plan, described by the head of the General Administration...
Read MoreFrom Reuters via the Guardian: Chinese cities have ordered checks on supermarkets in the wake of a chaotic cooking oil promotion in a Carrefour store in which three people were trampled to death. The dead were among hundreds of customers who crushed into one of the French retail giant stores in Chongqing, a sprawling southwestern […]
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