Main Photo: Peking Opera backstage
Peking Opera performers offstage in Beijing. Photo by Jan Zdzarski Junior via Flickr.
Read MoreZhaohua 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.
Main Photo: Solar Kettle
Farmers in Tibet use a reflective dish to boil water. Photo by DonDomingo via Flickr.
Read MoreProduct Safety Fear Inflated, China Says – Audra Ang
Chinese authorities plead their case in the recent food safety uproar, saying international media have taken a global problem and unfairly laid it on China’s shoulders. From AP via the Washington Post: “Foreign media are using irrelevant cases or just a few cases to make the safety issue much bigger than it is and have […]
Read MoreChina Foils Fake Kung Fu Masters – BBC
Think China’s art of the fake reached its height with fake eggs? Think again. From the BBC: The Chinese authorities say they have foiled a plot to smuggle immigrants abroad disguised as martial arts performers from the Shaolin Temple. Twelve young men were trained in traditional lion dancing and given fake passports before joining real […]
Read MoreWhat Ever Happened to The Olympics Traffic Control Test Run?
In all the hoopla surrounding Wednesday’s Olympics countdown extravaganza on Tian’anmen Square, Asia Times correspondent Edward Russell was among the few to note that one of the city’s most important preparations for 2008 ” a test-run of the vehicle ban designed to ease the city’s infamous traffic” failed to happen: On Tuesday, the day the […]
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