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.
The Christian Science Monitor digs into one of China’s most neglected Olympics stories: The Paralympics offer China an equal, if not a greater, chance of national sporting glory than the main event: Its athletes swept the medals table at Athens 2004. Around 4,000 athletes from 150 countries are expected to attend the games, to be […]
Read MoreChina takes the battle to protect it’s good name onto (it’s own) airwaves. From AP via CNN.com: The new television campaign titled “Believe in Made in China” follows discoveries of high levels of chemicals and toxins in a range of Chinese exports from toys to toothpaste and fish. The first program in the series aired […]
Read MoreBeijing’s Ministry of Public Security released figures yesterday showing the capital’s population is nearing 18 million. From AP via the International Herald Tribune: The population rise is straining the city’s natural resources and environment, with Beijing long having passed the food self-sufficiency mark of 14 million, the report said. It said the population included 12.04 […]
Read MoreThe latest NetNews This Week (ÁΩë‰∫ã‰∏ÄÂë® ) column from newly installed Netease Blog Editor Wen Yuchao notes a rash of recent blog bans and deletions. Foremost among these is the early death of an Olympics blog recently launched by China Sports Illustrated reporter Gua Erjia (ÁìúÂ∞îÂä† ). Translated by Global Voices Online: On August 16 […]
Read MoreThe Ministry of Education signals the end of an English-improvement drive launched last year with a new report reassuring the world that China “has set strict standards on the use of both Chinese and English in service industry to better meet the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.” Via Eastday.com: The report showed that China has regulated […]
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