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 New York Times: Taiwan’s foreign minister warned Monday that Beijing’s establishment of diplomatic relations over the weekend with Chad, one of Taiwan’s few remaining allies, would hurt relations across the Taiwan Strait. Foreign Minister James Huang of Taiwan said the switch in diplomatic relations followed two months of secret meetings between Chadian and […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Tucked away in the back of this coastal city’s export-oriented manufacturing zone is a place that can only be described as a modern mummification factory. Inside a series of unmarked buildings, hundreds of Chinese workers, some seated in assembly line formations, are cleaning, cutting, dissecting, preserving and re-engineering human corpses, […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Like many Chinese intellectuals during the recent economic boom, Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao, a husband-and-wife team of writers, mostly ignored their ancestral homes in the countryside. No one, they described themselves as thinking, wants to read about peasants in the era of skyscrapers and designer bags. Happily for themselves […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Pro-Beijing lawmakers approved legislation here Sunday that gives broad authority to the police to conduct covert surveillance, including wiretapping phones, bugging homes and offices and monitoring e-mail. The bill passed the 60-member Legislative Council on a vote of 32-0 after pro-democracy lawmakers walked out of the chamber in protest during […]
Read MoreFrom Chongqing Morning Post via Yulun Jiandu, translated by CDT: On Aug. 4, the Wanzhou district government office building in Chongqing City was auctioned for 32.6 million yuan. The buyer, one of the two bidders, of the landmark 25-story is Three Gorges Hydropower Group. The auction was the third of the Wanzhou government’s attempt to […]
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