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.
Increased Appetite For Borrowing In China - Raphael Minder
Posted by Zhaohua Li | Sep 1, 2007
A new McKinsey survey reveals some unexpected information about the financial habits of wealthy Chinese. From the Financial Times: The management consultancy said that 31 per cent of affluent people surveyed in mainland China were now interested in borrowing, a “surprising” jump from 19 per cent in 2004, when it last carried out its Asian […]
Read MoreChina’s New Anti-monopoly Law: What Is it Good For? – China Law Blog
Posted by Zhaohua Li | Sep 1, 2007
“Absolutely nothing. At least not to me. At least not so far,” writes China legal expert Dan Harris in an initial reaction. The rest: I spent the early years of my legal career practicing antitrust law and I still enjoying trying to stay current, but this has, if anything, made me quite circumspect regarding China’s […]
Read MoreChina’s Big Hero Makes Gold Rush – Tom Knight
Posted by Zhaohua Li | Sep 1, 2007
China’s biggest sports star next to basketball giant Yao Ming fires the flames of Olympic expectation even higher after a major victory in Japan: Liu Xiang (刘翔) became the first man from China to win gold at the World...
Read MoreChinese Bloggers Thumb Their Noses At “Self Discipline” – RConversation
Posted by Zhaohua Li | Aug 29, 2007
Former CNN Beijing bureau chief-turned-blog evangelist Rebecca MacKinnon debunks some of the panic over a recent ‘self-discipline’ agreement blog service providers (including Yahoo! and MSN) signed with the Chinese government last week: Before doing anything I checked in with some Chinese bloggers. I found people doing the literary equivalent of thumbing their noses with tongues […]
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