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 EastSouthWestNorth blog: On June 16, Kunming Daily’s Metropolis Times mobilized several hundred distributors to sell annual subscriptions at 30 RMB (old copies are not collected). On June 18, Kunming Metropolis Daily/Yunnan Daily’s Chuncheng Evening News responded aggresstively with annual subscriptions at 25 RMB (old copies are not collected). On June 19, Metropolis Times responded […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia: Thousands of students at China’s burgeoning private universities and colleges have staged riots, protests, and sit-ins in response to new regulations that affect what type of degree they receive, students and analysts say…. In December 2005, around 3,000 students at the Dongruan Information Institution affiliated to China’s Northeastern University went on […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: For the first time in more than five years, an official Vatican delegation is visiting China and meeting with government officials, signaling a warming between parties that have been locked in conflict in recent months, experts said this week. “This is a real gesture by the Vatican and its diplomats,” […]
Read MoreFrom AP via Forbes: President Hu Jintao called on Communist Party leaders Friday to stamp out rampant corruption and do a better job of managing China’s ruling party as they marked the 85th anniversary of its founding. China has punished thousands of officials in a multiyear campaign to clean up graft and abuses that are […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via Scotsman.com News: With the trees in bloom and the sun shining, students strolling the grounds of Beijing’s leafy university campuses shouldn’t have a care in the world. They’ve marked themselves out as China’s best and brightest by winning coveted places in college and are graduating into a country experiencing breakneck economic growth, […]
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