Michael Zhao graduated from UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, where he produced an in-depth multimedia thesis on electronic waste dumping from the rich world to developing countries. He also made a short documentary on the same topic, available on his personal site. He now works at Asia Society's Center on US-China Relations as a multimedia producer in New York. Michael worked for the New York Times Beijing Bureau as a reporting assistant from 2003-2005. He graduated from the Beijing Language & Culture University with a bachelor's degree in English. He co-authored a book on learning Chinese language and culture, Urban Chinese: Mandarin in 21st Century China. Michael was born and grew up in Wuhan, China.
An education reporter went into Pingdu (Âπ≥Â∫¶), a county-level city under Qingdao City of Shandong Province, and delved into how time clocks so fast in a town that is dubbed a “national advanced county of basic education,” and the fact that education officials, teachers, parents and students are consumed by a self-reinforcing pressure to keep […]
Read MoreChances are many Chinese may not know this lady, but very few haven’t heard of or seen her iconic and ubiquitous entertainment show, The Same Song (Âêå‰∏ÄȶñÊ≠å). Ms. Meng Xin, director of one of the most popular entertainment TV programs in China, is the Martha Stewart-like icon in China’s new age of pop culture and […]
Read MoreA caveat: China doesn’t only export cheap goods, now people who benefit from the China Price around the world need to be aware of a potential threat coming from Chinese-made environmental hazards, which are affecting more and more Chinese. See comprehensive coverage of this problem from Wall Street Journal’s Page One story: Doctors treating a […]
Read MoreFrom Reporters’ Home section of Xici.net, translated by CDT: Eight reporters from newspapers and TV stations descended upon an accident in the early morning a few days ago where a bus fell off a bridge at Renhe Township (‰∫∫ÂíåÈïá) in Guangzhou‘s Baiyun District. Right when they felt relieved after finishing reporting and shooting, something else […]
Read MoreReporters’ Home section at Xici.net ran a group of photos capturing Fan Zhiyi, captain of China’s national soccer team and a Mr. Football Asia, joining his teammates during a training session in beating and kicking a stadium worker who, ignorant of the training schedule, was watering the grass on the training turf. (The resolution of […]
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