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 second phase in China’s legal response to the Shanxi illegal brick kiln'(ȪëÁ†ñÁ™ë) controversy has begun. From AFP via Yahoo! News: Another 26 people accused of forced labour and brutal conditions in brickyards have gone on trial in China amid a scandal that has outraged the nation, state press said Thursday. The defendants are all […]
Read MoreA child bikes in the rain in Chengdu. Photo by +graemetric-.
Read MoreAs this year’s unusually nasty flood season continues, China finds itself considering measures both harrowing and strange. First, from the Bankok Post: An estimated 2 billion field mice are chomping their way hungrily through crops in 22 counties (discricts) around the Dongting Lake in central China’s Hunan province after their homes on islands in the […]
Read MoreMore ammunition for the U.S. in its aborning trade war with China, via Bloomberg: The trade gap, released by the customs bureau today, widened by 87 percent from a year earlier after exporters rushed to beat cuts in export tax rebates. A Bloomberg News survey of 15 economists had a median estimate of $23.8 billion. […]
Read MoreThe BBC’s Central Asia correspondent takes a long look at a story that usually gets little play: Efforts by Uighur refugees in Kazakhstan to avoid being sent back to Xinjiang: In a dimly-lit room, Khader and his friends showed us piles of paperwork – thick files of dozens of asylum seekers, with black and white […]
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