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: Self defense is a right entitled to citizens and organizations, so to employees of power and other industries that have come under fire. But if they produce unreasonable arguments, then it’s a different matter. When asked whether high income level is justified for the power […]
Read MoreFrom Qiangguo Forum via Yulun Jiandu, translated by CDT: Some recent articles from the press are good food for thought: the secretary of state of some country (must be U.S. huh?) was booed during speaking at a university; a local election turned into a group fighting. On the surface, these events were scoffed at for […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via the New York Times: Former Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui plans to visit Japan next month, a representative of his political party said on Monday, a move likely to upset China because it sees Taiwan as a wayward province. Taiwan’s Chinese-language Liberty Times reported on Monday that Lee would visit Japan at the […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via the New York Times: About 17 million people in southwest China don’t have access to clean drinking water due to sustained drought, state media reported on Sunday. Crops on large tracts of farmland in Sichuan province and the nearby Chongqing municipality have withered due to the month-long drought, causing economic losses of […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via the New York Times: The disgraced chief prosecutor of a district in northwest China has been executed for stabbing his wife to death in her sleep, the Beijing News reported on Sunday. Chen Ping, former chief prosecutor of Qindu district in Xianyang city, Shaanxi province, was put to death on Saturday after […]
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