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.

China’s Recycling ‘Saves Forests’ – BBC

It appears not every bit of environmental news out of China bespeaks disaster. A new report from Forest Trends, an NGO, credits Chinese willingness to use recycled waste paper with the salvation of millions of tons’ worth of forests worldwide: “Just last year, China’s use of waste-paper instead of trees to make paper products probably […]

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This Is A Stickup: Your Pork Or Your Life! - Weird Asia News

First dumplings filled with cardboard, now this: According to the Shenzhen Jing newspaper, a peddler was robbed of his motorcycle and his load of 125kg of pork.He was on his way to a market in Shenzhen, which lies on the border of Hong Kong. The suspects rushed from a minibus and threatened him with a […]

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China’s Industrial Nightmare – Orville Schell

A long-time China watcher argues that worldwide shock over tainted Chinese food exports is symptomatic of outsiders’ willful naivete in the face of Chinese growth: Why does this surprise us? After all, “capitalism with Chinese characteristics” has been a chaotic free-for-all for some time. Roughly 75% of China’s food is now produced by small, private, […]

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China Not Sole Source Of Dubious Food - Andrew Martin and Griff Palmer

With China’s top food administrator barely cold in his grave after being executed for gross neglect of duty and Beijing calling for a clean-up of the nation’s toothpaste industry, the International Herald Tribune offers an alternative to the hysteria over tainted Chinese exports: Black pepper with salmonella from India. Crabmeat from Mexico that is too […]

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