Zhaohua Li
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.
A Construction Engineer’s Thoughts on the Sichuan Earthquake
Posted by Zhaohua Li | May 22, 2008
Out of the chaos of online chatter about the Sichuan earthquake comes a detailed essay by a construction engineer calling himself Book Blade (书剑子)that has been winning praise for its analysis. Recently published on Chinese blog...
Read MoreEarthquake Predicted? Rumors Rife
Posted by Zhaohua Li | May 15, 2008
As the rescue crews continue to drag bodies out of the rubble of the Wenchuan earthquake, Meng Zhang at Global Voices translates a blog post written by CASS researcher Li Shihui, in which the seismologist says one of his...
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