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 The New York Times: Shanghai is rightfully known as a fast-moving, hypermodern city ” full of youth and vigor. But that obscures a less well-known fact: Shanghai has the oldest population in China, and it is getting older in a hurry. Twenty percent of this city’s people are at least 60, the common retirement […]
Read MoreFrom Yulun Jiandu, translated by CDT: A group of teachers from a village school in Hengyang City of Hunan Province wrote a letter to Yulun Jiandu to seek help about their lack of funding and unpaid wages. After several revisions to textbooks since May 2001, there has been no new facilities, no new book and […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian has survived a parliamentary attempt to oust him from office over scandals besetting his family and advisers. More than half Taiwan’s legislators backed a motion to recall Mr Chen, but it fell short of the two-thirds majority required to pass. Thousands of Mr Chen’s opponents and supporters gathered […]
Read MoreFrom Christian Science Monitor: If you are going to gather a set of outcast children in China, provide them decent food, a sense of family, and moments to laugh – all with zero official support – you’d better be plenty tough. But for Zhang Shuqin, being tough, or simply smart, isn’t enough. A commitment to […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: When the police raked a crowd of demonstrators with gunfire last December in the seaside village of Dongzhou, a few miles from this city, Chinese human rights advocates denounced the action as the bloodiest in the country since the killings at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, in 1989. Villagers said at […]
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