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 deputy director of China’s National Development and Reform Commission, Xie Zhenhua, recently expressed doubts the country would meet its energy conservation targets. The culprit: Unrestrained growth in energy-intensive industries like construction, steel and chemicals. According to the state-run English-language daily, the former SEPA head made his comments in an online interview: Xie said some […]
Read MoreHenan TV reporter Fu Zhenzhong tells yWeekend the blow-by-blow of how he launched the Shanxi brick kiln investigation that exploded into a still-raging national controversy. Fu went undercover for much of the investigation, at one point stripping off his shirt and speaking in a Henan accent to pose as a parent in search of his […]
Read MoreAs mainstream media latch onto the recent revelation by a Dutch think tank that China has surpassed the U.S. as the world’s top emitter of carbon dioxide, Dave Roberts over at Grist tries to leaven the discussion with a list of seven “truths” to keep in mind. Among the most notable items in the list: […]
Read MoreIt seems so. A Dutch think tank today released figures showing China beat the United States, the globe’s reining climate change offender, in a 2006 tally of carbon dioxide production. The score: 6.2 billion tons for China to 5.8 billion for the U.S. If this is true, China’s impact on climate change appears to be […]
Read MoreChinese activist Hu Jia recently updated his blog with a post on the status of Chen Guangcheng (ÈôàÂÖâËØö), the celebrated Blind Lawyer who was arrested and imprisoned last year after exposing gross abuse of China’s birth-control policy by officials in Shandong Province. Hu’s information appears to come from Chen’s wife, Yuan Weijing, who apparently visited […]
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