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 AP via the New York Times (link): Archbishop Anthony Li Duan, an important figure in China’s divided Roman Catholic Church, died Thursday, an official of China’s state-approved church said. He was 78. Archbishop Li had had liver cancer for two years, the official said. The archbishop, leader of the Xian diocese, in western China, […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times (link): Chinese authorities have preliminarily fixed a June 8 trial date for a researcher for The New York Times who is accused of fraud and disclosing state secrets, his lawyer said Friday. The decision to try the researcher, Zhao Yan, 44, who worked in the Beijing bureau of The Times, […]
Read MoreFrom the EastSouthWestNorth blog (link): At the January 12th “Innovations and Developments in Newspaper Enterprises” forum in Guangzhou, the Jiefang Daily group made a proposal to the 39 party newspaper groups in the country: Let us form a national newspaper content alliance and raise the threshold for Internet re-publishing in order to protect our intellectual […]
Read MoreA in-depth feature about China and India (link) Key facts (link): Explore how economic growth is changing the world’s two most populous countries into increasingly powerful forces. Workers’ stories (link, with videos): As part of a special series exploring the rise of India and China as global giants, the workers who fuel the growth of […]
Read MoreFrom AP via the Washington Post (link): Victor Dejesus, a Spanish winemaker, is eager to sell his wines in China, but he found he may have a problem. “China is a very big market, of course, but they’re less sophisticated,” he said. “I was in Shanghai, and I had too many mixtures of wine with […]
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