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.

China (Officially) Arrests Cyber-dissident – AFP

More than a month after he was “detained” by police in Zhejiang, Internet activist and anti-eviction crusader Lu Gengsong (ÂêïËÄøÊùæ ) has now been officially arrested and charged with a familiar crime. Via Google News: China has formally arrested writer and cyber-dissident Lu Gengsong, a former lecturer turned activist, on suspicion of subverting state power, […]

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Selling Steak to China – Krista Mahr

Pork, apparently, is for the plebes. TIME looks into an American-owned company that’s set up camp in Inner Mongolia to help provide the Middle Kingdom’s wealthy with more filet mignon: Earlier this year, Western Cattle started to raise Holsteins on an American-style ranch and feedlot built in the wide open spaces of Inner Mongolia. Their […]

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NKorea Nuclear Talks Suspended For Two Days – XFN

The latest round of the Six Party Talks are on hiatus, apparently to give the parties time to put the final touches on a new joint agreement. From XFN via Forbes.com: The six-nation talks were originally scheduled to end today after four days of meetings, but Chinese envoy Wu Dawei said there would be a […]

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