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 Yulun Jiandu, translated by CDT: On June 2, reporters sat in with farmers of Xiayang Village of Haicang District of Xiamen City, Fujian Province, in their court trial suing the Xiamen city government for refusing the request to re-consider district government seizing the village’s land for golf and other developments. Other villages were also […]
Read MoreFrom Yulun Jiandu, translated by CDT: A fire enveloped a private-run socks factory at Datang Township of Zhuji City in Zhejiang Province on July 16, killing three women workers, two of whom are children, according to a survivor who successfully ran away from the disaster. The boss and his wife were the first to escape […]
Read MoreFrom AP via the New York Times: It’s a dream that’s been pursued for years by governments, energy companies and automakers so far without success: Mass-producing affordable hydrogen-powered cars that spew just clean water from their tailpipes. So Shanghai’s Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies decided to start small. Really small. This month, it will begin sales […]
Read MoreFrom Beijing Review: As part of a program to adapt the Internet to young people under 18 jointly initiated by such organizations as the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League of China and the Information Office of the State Council, a non-profit minors’ Internet navigation platform, www.wm360.cn, was launched in late May. The website […]
Read MoreFrom Beijing Review: Every time he passes the spot where his younger sister is buried, Tangshan resident Qin Boheng, 39, feels deep sorrow. Thirty years ago, his sister died in the devastating Tangshan earthquake that claimed 240,000 lives, almost a quarter of the city’s population at the time. Qin’s memories of the disaster are of […]
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