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.
From the Forum column of Beijing Review magazine, interestingly (downed) Shanghai’s top boss also pledged to fight corruption and graft during the swirling torrent of pension funds scandal: In mid-August in Hefei, east China’s Anhui Province, over 150 major officials of the city’s Baohe District attended a ceremony in the local memorial temple for Bao […]
Read MoreDespite using a sometimes controversial technique of secretly filming a Tianjin hospital, a good story on China’s booming business of trading and exporting convicts’ organs, from BBC News (video here or here): The sale of organs taken from executed prisoners appears to be thriving in China, an undercover investigation by the BBC has found. The […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via the New York Times: China blasted Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian on Wednesday for a plan to change the constitution and rename the island, moves Beijing would consider a formal declaration of independence of territory it claims as its own. Chen’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is studying constitutional changes to name the […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua via sina.com, translated by CDT: Chen Liangyu (ÈôàËâØÂÆá), now former party secretary of Shanghai, was downed today for his involvement in the pension funds scandal. According to information available out of a recent investigation, Chen helped some businessmen and his aides and their families in lining their pockets in the misuse of social […]
Read MoreLast installment in the typology of corrupt officials from People’s Daily Online via Yulun Jiandu, translated by CDT: “Swindled (“È™ó”Âá∫Êù•ÁöÑ),” like Chen Yaonan (ÈôàËÄÄÂçó), deputy party secretary of Zhenjiang City in Jiangsu Province. An ambitious #2 boss in his city who wanted to be the one who commands, Chen slip into a trap set up […]
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