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 Telegraph: Chinese cities have been ordered to put back their cycle lanes in the hope of restoring the nation’s image as the land of the bicycle. The picture of Chinese cities as a seething tide of grey-clad cyclists, perpetuated until very recently in western advertisements, has long since given way to one of […]
Read MoreVia China Environmental News [link]: The World Bank unveiled an ambitious plan of lending to China that highlights environmental destruction and social inequality as “critical” challenges for the booming nation. The plan envisages annual assistance of 1.5 billion dollars for the next five years, making China the global lender’s biggest aid recipient along with India.The […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via the Boston Globe [link]: A decade ago, Longben Cairao would have been in deep water. Today he stands on firm ground on Erlangjian, a sandspit named after a mythical sword in a classical Chinese tale that curves about 2-1/2 miles out into Lake Qinghai, China’s largest expanse of inland water.”This wasn’t here […]
Read MoreFrom the Chicago Tribune [link – registration required]: In a classroom at one of China’s top universities, an elite group of young researchers huddle over an urgent question: Can Beijing clean up its filthy air in time for the 2008 Olympics? For China, it is nothing short of a Manhattan Project on air quality. Their […]
Read MoreYet another development in China’s “epic films vs. the environment” debate, from Reuters via Independent Online [link]: China’s remote far western region of Xinjiang, where part of Oscar-winning “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” was filmed, is to ban movie shoots at scenic spots for fear of damage to the environment, state media said on Thursday. That […]
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