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 Times Online: Whitbread, the leisure group, has signed a joint venture deal to develop its Costa coffee chain in China in the next stage of its strategy to turn the brand into a global competitor to Starbucks. Costa, which is already in 14 territories, including India and countries in the Middle East, plans to […]
Read MoreFrom News24.com: Hundreds of police have been deployed to a central China university after thousands of students rioted and went on strike in a dispute with school management, pupils and residents said on Monday. Between 5 000 and 10 000 students from Zhengzhou University in Henan province were involved in the unrest, which broke out […]
Read MoreFrom the EastSouthWestNorth blog: Lai Changxing is the smuggling kingpin involved in the greatest known corruption case in the history of the People’s Republic of China. He is presently fighting a deportation order in Canada and part of his argument is based upon the fact that Canada does not deport people to countries where they […]
Read MoreFrom Yulun Jiandu, translated by CDT: It has been learned from some of Tianjin‘s government agencies that Li Baojin, chief of Tianjin’s Procuratorate, has been ordered to self-report his corruption issues at a specified time and a specified place, or shuang gui in Chinese. There has been no official confirmation of the news or explanation […]
Read MoreCommentary from Beijing Review: I think maybe a new branch of learning should be created to deal with the Cultural Revolution and everything pertinent to it. According to conventional English word formation, the new discipline can be called “culturevolutionology” or “culturevolutionism.” It’s appropriate to describe the Cultural Revolution as a civil war, a political earthquake, […]
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