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: The group’s fortunes have also risen with booming global energy markets, because it unites one of the world’s largest and fastest growing energy consumers, China, with several of the largest producers. The politics of the global energy market have proved a powerful draw to many outsiders as well, from Iran […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: A senior Chinese government official has criticised city planners for ignoring the needs of the nation’s cyclists. In recent years the number of bikes on China’s streets has dropped as car ownership has increased. The bicycle used to be China’s main form of transport. At one point there were some 500 million […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua News Agency: The Chinese government must do more to tackle traffic jams, choking air pollution and other urban transport problems, the World Bank says in a report released here on Wednesday. “Unfortunately, the checks and balances mechanisms have not been fully in place to ensure appropriate procedures for municipal decisions to take into […]
Read MoreFrom Danwei TV: Meet media mogul Hong Huang (洪晃 ) in the second part of a two part interview. Hong talks about the Chinese beauty mystique, jealousy, feminism, bar-fights, and her acting debut in recently released feature...
Read MoreFrom Interfax: China’s continuous media censorship and a recent apparent upgrade of controls have led to widespread condemnation from media organizations around the world. There have been a number of recent announcements calling for boycotts and protests against China’s censorship combined with condemnation of western firms that cooperate with the Chinese government. The UK’s National […]
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