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 new two-part series from China Dialogue on the increasingly dodgy territory of food production in China. From part one: Let’s just look at pickled vegetables. Although pickled vegetables were first made in Sichuan, there is hardly anyone in the whole country who hasn’t tasted this delicious snack. But now when you visit Sichuan, your […]
Read MoreA stinging attack on local government negligence in environmental protection from the Party mouthpiece: Official dereliction of duty has been blamed for a mass poisoning case triggered by a factory in Gansu Province that belched out 800 times the acceptable level of lead. The deputy head of China’s top environmental watchdog slammed the role of […]
Read MorePicking up from Shanghai Daily: At its hometown show last week, China’s First Auto Works wowed the locals with a demonstration of what was described as the country’s first unmanned vehicle ” not counting spacecraft, of course. The vehicle in question was a specially modified version of FAW’s Hongqi (Red Flag) HQ3 sedan, which was […]
Read MoreVia China Environmental News Digest: Chinese authorities have detained senior managers at two factories in southern China which leaked the cancer-causing chemical arsenide into a river, the official Xinhua news agency said. The plants in Hunan province, which had no pollution treatment facilities, had been closed down, Xinhua said in an overnight report seen on […]
Read MoreThe Guardian seizes on Wen Jiabao‘s impending visit to the UK to summarize recent crackdowns on dissenting voices: The Chinese prime minister, Wen Jiabao, flew into London today amid rising international criticism of his government’s crackdown on lawyers, journalists, NGOs and civil liberties activists. In the most repressive phase since Mr Wen and President Hu […]
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