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.
Caijing Magazine reports on an apparent legal breakthrough: As a result of a controversial abortion, Jin Yani can no longer bear children. She was nine months pregnant when officials from the local department of China’s State Population and Family Planning Commission came to her home to force an immediate termination of her pregnancy which, she […]
Read MoreIt appears Steven Spielberg, one of the global gurus of spectacle hired to jazz up the 2008 Games, has finally submitted to pressure from Darfur activists and threatened to quit his Olympics post unless China takes a more active role in the Sudan. From ABC News: As celebrities-cum-activists increasingly link the ongoing genocide with China’s […]
Read MoreThe Communist Party’s central mouthpiece reports the Party’s efforts to control greenhouse gas emissions have bumped into a formidable foe: Face. Sales of low-emission cars in China declined 11.67 percent in the first half of the year with the majority consumers valuing social status over the environment. The dip in sales was in stark contrast […]
Read MoreThe revival of Confucianism in China may not be a new story, but give the Washington Post points for nuance: “With the fast economic growth, many people have become selfish and have no morality,” said Ren Xiaolin, founder of the Zhengzhou Young Pioneers school… “This has created a need for Confucianism. . . . The […]
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