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 Nanfang Daily, also carried by People Net, translated by CDT: After three years of study on anti-corruption system designing by a team of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, an anti-corruption law was proposed for China’s legislature. The necessity and public opinion basis are needless to elaborate. But a timetable for this legislation in […]
Read MoreFrom ChinaNews Net, translated by CDT: A reporter from the Economic Reference Daily looked into some of he most polluted areas of commercial bribery and learned from insiders about a variety of bribery how-tos. Construction: spring festival, mid-autumn festival, national day and other holidays are the best times to “communicate feelings” with officials, according to […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via the New York Times: A court in Henan Province in China has jailed the leader of one of the country’s largest underground Christian churches for seven and a half years, Hong Kong’s RTHK radio reported Saturday. Quoting the China Aid Association, a group based in the United States that monitors religious freedom […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia: Even as top Communist Party leaders in Beijing still permit no national memorial to the decade of chaos and political violence that was the Cultural Revolution (1966-76), officials in Guangdong have quietly built a museum honoring those who died in the southern province. The museum, which is privately financed and advertises […]
Read MoreFrom the Reuters via the New York Times: China sentenced three members of a local Christian sect to death for the murder of followers of a rival group and ordered likely life sentences for three other members of the controversial underground religion. The court in Shuangyashan in northeast China’s Heilongjiang province ordered the execution of […]
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