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.
Xinhua reports China’s central government has ordered that minimum wages be raised across the country to help compensate for the country’s drastically rising food costs. From the Associated Press (via the Kansas City Star Tribune): Chinese leaders have been alarmed by a spike in inflation that saw the price of eggs rise 37.1 percent in […]
Read MoreGuangzhou photographer Tan Weishan has posted a striking series of photos depicting victims of the Shanxi Brick kilns on his personal blog. In the photo below, Wang Meng recovers after being rescued from the infamous kiln, run by Wang Binbin, that launched the controversy: See the full series here (Warning: Some of the images are […]
Read MoreCNN’s former Beijing bureau chief, now a blog evangelist cum journalism professor, writes on a question she recently posed to other attendees at the World Journalism Education Conference: Are blogs more important to China correspondents than they are to journalists working elsewhere? Her tentative answer is yes. Among her arguments: The China story in the […]
Read MoreJohn Kennedy at Global Voices provides extensive background on reports earlier today that a 90-year-old woman in the Zhejiang town of Shengzhou threatened police with a homemade gasoline bomb as violent protests erupted over her eviction. It appears the woman, Zhang Xinghua, is just one of dozens of residents resisting demolition of their building, which […]
Read MoreChina’s State Administration of Radio, Film and Television has revoked the right of two local TV stations to run commercial advertisements in what it says in an effort to crackdown on the broadcasting of bogus claims, particularly in medical ads. Danwei interprets the bans as a kill-chicken-to-frighten-monkeys move: The administration has been tightening its truth-in-advertising […]
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