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 Zhinong Net, translated by CDT: Personal rights, according to Chinese dictionary, refers to the life, health, movement, reputation, etc. of an individual, the civil rights that cannot be separated with the citizen him/herself but not directly related to economic interests, such as properties or material belongings. Due to the man-made two-world social structure in […]
Read MoreFrom Beijing Review: May 11 proved to be a turning point for Shi Zhanming, a country singer. In a televised singing contest on that night, during a general knowledge quiz, Shi mistook the national flags of Britain and Australia for those of China and Japan. From then on, he was the subject of taunts and […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: On a Kunming basketball court where a group of young police officers was taking on a team made up of teenage boys, all of them young offenders. The match was part of a revolutionary new programme in Kunming. Instead of young offenders being sent to jail, many are being allowed to stay […]
Read MoreFrom Zhinong Net, translated by CDT: The average cultivated land in China is way below the world’s average level. A series of laws and regulations have been put in place to protect the farm land, arguably “the most...
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: When John Pomfret arrived in China in 1980, ready to begin language classes at the University of Nanjing, he looked out the train window at a timeless pastoral scene in the fields outside Shenzhen. “I saw men steering wooden plows pulled by water buffalo, women hunkered over knee-deep in rice […]
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