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 Beijing Review: For 48 years it has lain submerged in a reservoir. Now, completely reconstructed, Jingle Palace, the most magnificent of the nine Taoist palaces in UNESCO’s world heritage site of the Wudangshan Mountains, was opened to tourists in late March 2006. In 1958, a reservoir was built in Danjiangkou as part of the […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via the New York Times: Tibetan exiles living in India scaled the fence at the Chinese embassy and set fire to Chinese flags on Monday, protesting against a nearly-completed railway linking Tibet with the rest of China. Several protesters, some dressed in Buddhist robes, were arrested after a violent scuffle with embassy guards […]
Read MoreFrom the Taipei Times: Ignoring the summer heat of southern Taiwan, thousands of people yesterday took part in a Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT)– organized rally in Kaohsiung to demand the ouster of President Chen Shui-bian, while outside, separated by barbed-wire blockades, more than 1,000 pan-green supporters showed up to voice their support for the embattled […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times, carried by the Peking Duck: These days, China bars foreign missionaries, and the government sometimes harasses or imprisons Christians. Yet Christianity is booming as never before in China, and some giddy followers say China could eventually have hundreds of millions of Christians, perhaps more than any other country in the […]
Read MoreFrom Christian Science Monitor: The story of Leifeng and Puxing, some 100 miles west of Siberia, is a protracted saga of environmental abuse, family tragedy, official neglect – and a determination to fight within the system for change…. Villagers’ concerns began in 2001, when hundreds of pigs and chickens mysteriously died. After Chinese New Year […]
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