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.
An essay from CRIonline, translated by CDT: Chinese characters are brilliant. For instance, the character for corruption, fu (ËÖê), has a “government” on the top and “flesh” in the bottom, meaning officials becoming rotten. Something that rots will “wither” – bai (Ë¥•), thus the word fu bai for corruption. From the human perspective, corruption stems […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Starting this summer the Hong Kong government plans to have 200,000 youths search Internet discussion sites for illegal copies of copyrighted songs and movies, and report them to the authorities. The campaign has delighted the entertainment industry, but prompted misgivings among some civil liberties advocates. Christine Loh, the chief executive […]
Read MoreFrom EastSouthWestNorth blog: Preference of boys over girls is still hanging on in Chinese society, urban as well as rural. And it killed a mother who just gave birth to a cut little girl. Worse, the husband’s family treated the new mother badly and the husband raped his wife before she committed suicide with their […]
Read MoreFrom the EastSouthWestNorth blog: This is an excerpt from the interview of journalist Li Yuanlong written by his lawyer Li Jianqiang (who was procured by the Chinese Independent PEN. Lawyer: In terms of your thinking, what made you write these essays? Li: There are three reasons. First, I am a journalist for a party newspapers. […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia: An unemployed miner in China’s southern province of Guangdong blew himself up at local police station after pleading with officers to help him obtain unpaid wages, witnesses said. Police have identified the miner as Liu Yingqiu, a native of central Hunan province, they told RFA’s Cantonese service. He appears to have […]
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