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 China Youth Daily via Yulun Jiandu, translated by CDT: Finance Minister Jin Renqing said in a national finance system construction conference that China plans to set up a modern government finances management system in...
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Jade prospectors are putting one of China’s rivers in peril and could soon exhaust supplies of the precious stone. About 200,000 people are sifting the Yurungkax river in Xinjiang for Hotan jade – which costs up to $120 (¬£63) a gramme – state media reports have said. In 2004, jade hunters using […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via the New York Times: A Chinese court has rejected a woman’s claims for compensation for her sex life, which was ruined when her husband was injured in an accident, the Shanghai Daily reported on Thursday. Wei Suying, 31, whose husband has suffered from erectile dysfunction since a 2003 workplace accident, filed suit […]
Read MoreA talk show, Focus 580, interviewing Richard Baum, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Chinese Studies at UCLA on China: Topics touch on China’s two camps of people, rural and urban, emerging...
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia: Authorities across China have stepped up detentions and surveillance of key rights activists amid growing calls for the release of Beijing-based lawyer Gao Zhisheng. “Gao Zhisheng was taken away by unidentified men in plain clothes who gave no identification nor any reason for his detention while he was on a trip […]
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