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 San Jose Mercury News has a nicely balanced feature on what China claims is one the biggest factors preventing it from cleaning up its environment–technology transfer–and the California companies looking benefit by addressing it: Some initiatives are driven by personal reasons. Peggy Liu, a former Silicon Valley Internet executive now living in Shanghai, grew […]
Read MoreA man sells Cultural Revolution paraphernalia in Beijing’s Dashanzi neighborhood. Photo by Natalie Behring.
Read MoreReuters has a long feature on the migration of Chinese firms away from the rat races running in the country’s crowded coastal regions: Whereas Mao and his rebels retreated from the hills to avoid annihilation at the hands of Chiang Kai-shek’s forces, Lin [Yebiao] and Zhuang [Binguang] are here to flee the cut-throat competition in […]
Read MoreNew York Times features writer and amateur photographer Howard French holds forth in one of the most voluminous editions of the Chinacast Foreign Correspondents Series so far. Based in Shanghai, French covers a wide swathe of...
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