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’s state-run English language mouthpiece continues it’s environmental crusade with an blunt look at how the country’s poorest are suffering the most from rising temperatures. The piece focuses on the Sichuan Basin (ÂõõÂ∑ùÁõÜÂú∞ ) near Chongqing, hit hard this year by an unusually severe series of natural disasters attributed to climate change: Zhao has survived […]
Read MoreChina’s State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT; 国家广播电影电视总局 ) continues it’s pre-Party Congress crackdown with the shuttering of a female crime reconstruction show and a wholesale ban on sex-related...
Read MoreSolar power a better bet than Web 2.0? A detailed look at the enthusiasm and economics of foreign investment in China’s much hyped clean technology sector from the San Francisco Chronicle: The statistics show that environmental technology is indeed among of the fast-growing segments for venture capitalists that operate in China. Clean tech investments in […]
Read MoreNotwithstanding its protection of charismatic megafauna (i.e., big charming animals like the panda), China has done a terrible job preserving biodiversity. With the Chinese River Dolphin (ÁôΩȱÄ˱ö ) now functionally extinct, Asia Times comes through with an informative summary of the country’s failure to protect animal life within its borders: China has one of the […]
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