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 needs stronger military forces as it faces growing instability and threats to national security, the ruling Communist Party’s ideological mouthpiece said according to reports in the state media on Wednesday. An essay in the latest issue of Qiushi, or Seek Truth, says China must strengthen its military […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Typhoon Kaemi came ashore on the southern China coast Tuesday afternoon, prompting the evacuation of more than 643,000 people in a region still recovering from an earlier storm that caused major flooding and left more than 600 people dead. State news media reported that the typhoon struck the coast at […]
Read MoreFrom Chinaytlaw.com, translated by CDT: Dear President Hu, Vice President Zeng and Premier Wen: My name is Li Jinsong, an average Chinese and an average Beijing lawyer. Today, I would like you to be able to listen to a plain, simple conversation between a young couple (one is blind) in Yinan County of Shandong Province. […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via CNet.com: Online marriage brokers are common in China, but a young Chinese Web site is thriving by turning the traditional idea of marriage on its head. Called Marriage for Asexuals, the site claims to be the first and biggest online marriage broker for “asexual” people in China. It says it has attracted […]
Read MoreFrom The Economic Observer, translated by CDT: Rich-poor polarization, if truly happening, is a progress. Why so? The Party’s 15th Congress noted that, to build a socialist market economy, we need to combine labor-based income distribution with production factors-based distribution. Capital, expertise and knowledge, etc. will become part of the income distribution. Also, income gap […]
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