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 Reuters via the New York Times: China jailed a New York Times researcher for three years for fraud on Friday, his lawyer said, one day after a blind human rights campaigner was convicted in what appears to be a clampdown on dissent. But the Beijing court dismissed a charge of leaking state secrets against […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: A drought in southwest China, the worst in 50 years, has led to the loss of five million tonnes of grain and damaged more than two million hectares (7,700 sq miles) of farmland, state media said on Thursday. The government was helping farmers plant crops like sweet potatoes, beans and yams which can […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited: A Chinese court has ordered two Japanese historians to pay damages of 1.6m yuan (¬£110,000) to a survivor of the 1937 Nanjing massacre whom they accused of fabricating her account. Although the ruling is largely symbolic because it has no force in Japan, the defamation lawsuit opens up a new front in […]
Read MoreFrom Beijing Review: The China Consumers’ Association (CCA) confirmed in late July that it has ended its “3-15” certification program for consumer-friendly products, and companies that had been certified will have to stop using the designation after their agreement with the CCA expires. Following a scandal about a flooring wood company, the CCA cancelled the […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via the New York Times: Chinese authorities have dismissed a Christian reporter after he posted comments on the Internet denouncing the destruction of a church in the country’s east, the reporter said on Monday. Zan Aizong, bureau chief of the Zhejiang office of the China Ocean News newspaper, recently converted to Christianity and […]
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