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.
A rift between China’s State Environmental Protection Administration and it National Bureau of Statistics has “indefinitely delayed” release of the long-promised Green GDP pollution report. From the BBC: Several local governments are reported to have objected to the release of “sensitive” information about the pollution they cause.Government officials from different departments also appear to disagree […]
Read MoreVarious outlets have noted that “traitor” Lin Biao (ÊûóÂΩ™ )–the hand-picked successor to Mao killed in an infamous plane crash in 1971 after supposedly conspiring to assassinate his benefactor–is included in a new display at the Chinese Military Museum in Beijing. The display is called “The Ten Marshals” and depicts the men considered to have […]
Read MoreA butcher hacks at a pile of pork in Dali, Yunnan Province. Photo via Flickr from maskofchina.com.
Read MoreChina announced verdicts yesterday in the Shanxi Brick Kiln slave labor controversy. According to the New York Times, popular response to the government’s measures, which included prosecution of only a few low-level officials, has been somewhat less than enthusiastic: Chinese journalists say government propaganda officials have urged the news media to limit coverage of the […]
Read MoreIn the past few days, the Chinese internet has been alive with jokes and speculation that Guangzhou’s famously wide-ranging appetites might be brought to bear on the flood-driven field mouse invasion of Hunan’s Dongting Lake area. Earlier this week, several newspapers, including the Beijing Times (Chinese), reported buyers from Guangzhou had indeed arrived in the […]
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