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.
An excellent summary from Joel Martinsen at Danwei of the battle raging online between Chinese nationalists and Chinese advocates of free speech, launched a couple weeks ago when Southern Metropolis editor Chang Ping wrote a...
Read MoreA revealing feature from the LA Times on China’s answer to Blackwater in the wealth-gap quagmire: Private security is taking off as the nation struggles with some of the side effects of its booming growth. A widening...
Read MoreIn a less-than-surprising development, it appears Beijing’s plans to ban smoking in public places during the Olympics are being reconsidered. From AFP: The China Daily had reported two weeks ago that the Chinese capital on...
Read MoreIn more of what Michael Manning of The Opposite End of China has taken to calling “breaking old news,” Chinese authorities have announced they arrested nine monks for bombing a government building in Tibet last...
Read MoreAt least one thing appears to be going right for China on the diplomatic front. After a brief but reportedly friendly meeting between Hu Jintao and Taiwan’s vice-president elect Vicent Siew on the sidelines of the...
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