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.
BusinessWeek takes a long-ish look the American National Basketball Association’s surprise pilfering of Timothy Chen, head honcho of Microsoft China, to be it’s new top man in the Middle Kingdom. The league’s motivation? Guanxi. …At first blush, Chen is an unusual hire, given Microsoft China’s success and his lack of a sports or media background. […]
Read MoreBeijing’s promise to keep the highly pressurized Olympics ticket purchase process on the up-and-up seems to have gone aground on the shores of economic reality. From TIME’s China blog: In China having connections can make all the difference. But when the first-stage ticket sales plan for the 2008 Olympics was announced earlier this year, the […]
Read MoreHefei-based subsidiaries of Unilever and Hitachi“the only two foreign firms included in a spot environmental inspection earlier this summer”were both caught pumping out wastewater in violation of government limits. Now the State Environmental Protection Administration promises domestic-foreign parity in the handing out of punishment. From China Daily: A senior official at the environment watchdog yesterday […]
Read MoreA Terrocotta-like warrior statue guards an Internet cafe in Dalian, by Elizabeth Thomsen via Flickr.
Read MoreApparently not content to let the land between Hong Kong and Shenzhen continue to lay fallow, government-connected planners have issued a new report suggesting the two cities be combined into a metropolis of 20 million people. From the BBC: Only then can Hong Kong be one of the world’s great cities, argues a research report […]
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