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.
From the Guardian’s original China hand: Chinese premier Wen Jiabao said last week during his visit to Europe that his government seeks to build “an environmentally friendly society” – and he seems to mean it. But can it be delivered? By 2020, half of China’s population will be living in urban areas, and domestic water […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhuanet: The second phase of raising the water level of the Three Gorges Reservoir began at 10:00 p.m. Wednesday. One of the 13 power-producing generators was shut down, reducing electricity generation to 5.65 million kw, down from the normal 6.86 million kw, according to Li Yong’an, general manager of the China Yangtze River Three […]
Read MoreUtne.com’s Webwatch takes on the rhetorical question: China has long been recognized as a nation of bicyclists, but as its economy booms and the government paves the world’s largest interstate-highway system, pedaling two-wheelers are being pushed aside to make room for cars. As Bill Donahue reports for Sierra, the Chinese have been reaping the benefits […]
Read MoreFirst-year students get instruction from PLA soliders at an institute in Shandong, photo by china.sixty4
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: Chinese surgeons have performed the world’s first penis transplant on a man whose organ was damaged beyond repair in an accident this year. The incident left the man with a 1cm-long stump with which he was unable to urinate or have sexual intercourse. “His quality of life was affected severely,” said Dr […]
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