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.
Earthquake prediction with Chinese characteristics, via Topix.net: China has come up with an earthquake prediction system which relies on the behavior of snakes, state media said on Thursday, two days after two quakes struck off neighboring Taiwan. The earthquake bureau in Nanning, capital of the Guangxi autonomous region in southern China, had developed its system […]
Read MoreThis week’s CDT ChinaCast Foreign Correspondents Series features Cindy Sui, a reporter for the Bejing bureau of Agence France-Press who recently left her job to move to Taiwan with her husband (also a reporter). Before she...
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Some 2,000 people mobbed and ransacked a hospital in southwestern China on Friday in a dispute over medical fees and shoddy health care practices, a human rights group said Sunday. At least 10 people were injured when the police broke up the demonstration at Guang’an City No. 2 People’s Hospital, […]
Read MoreA Uighur imam in Yining displays his HIV prevention ribbon. Photo by Steph Doust.
Read MoreA man walks past a slogan advertising “Mao Zedong thought,” in Chuandixia. Photo by Natalie Behring.
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