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.
Amidst all the talk about China’s new rules allowing foreign reporters greater freedom to travel and conduct interviews, the American Journalism Review takes a skeptical view of China’s promises of press freedom for the 2008 Olympics. The piece begins by mentioning rules implemented last September that make Xinhua the sole legitimate distributor of foreign news […]
Read MoreAs Communist Party leaders wring their hands over what to do with China’s rising temperatures, a new report suggests an atmospheric temperature shift may be what led the fall of the mighty Tang. From Science, Engineering & Technology News: The Tang dynasty is famed for a flowering of art and literature and for prosperity brought […]
Read MorePotential bad news for China’s jolly population of urban food wasters, courtesy of global warming. Associated Press via Planetsave.com: Climate change will harm China’s ecology and economy in the coming decades, possibly causing large drops in agricultural output, said a government report made public Wednesday. The report, issued by six government departments including the State […]
Read MoreThe central state-run news agency rings in the New Year with an upbeat article on new rules, effective today, which allow foreign journalists to travel and conduct interviews without wading through ponderous application processes. The story refers to a Reuters article about an ethnic Mongolian political prisoner, datelined Hohhot, that was among the first to […]
Read MoreThe latest chapter in SEPA’s war with local officials over lax environmental protection standards, from Xinhua via New Kerala: China’s State Administration of Environment Protection (SEPA) has revealed that environmental statistics released by some local governments are false and local pollution indices have been fabricated. “The figures on pollution control reported by the local government […]
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