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: Did China have a death from avian flu two years before it admitted having any human cases? The mystery deepened yesterday, and the possibility was raised that someone had tried to block publication of that event from a prestigious American medical journal. The New England Journal of Medicine reversed an […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia: U.S.-based Uyghur activist Rebiya Kadeer has said the arrest of her three adult sons by authorities in China amounts to retaliation by officials angered by her criticism of Chinese rule in the region. “My family in Urumqi has been notified in writing that my three sons have been arrested and my […]
Read MoreFrom AP via the New York Times: A new federal office is being set up solely to concentrate on making sure that China lives up to its trade obligations. The plan, announced by new U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab Friday, reflects growing impatience in Congress with Beijing’s slow pace in correcting practices regarded as illegal […]
Read MoreFrom AP via the New York Times: The verdict on a Chinese New York Times researcher charged with leaking state secrets has been delayed, adding another month to a case that has dragged on for nearly two years, his lawyer said Friday. The Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People’s Court was expected to issue a verdict […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia: The wife of a minority Muslim Uyghur writer, jailed by a Chinese court in 1999 for “stealing state secrets,” says authorities have never officially told her of her husband’s fate or whereabouts in more than seven years. Tohti Tunyaz, who wrote under the pen-name Tohti Muzart, was sentenced to 11 years’ […]
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