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 Magazine (link): A visit to the construction site of the National Stadium in Beijing is as close as you get in the 21st century to seeing what it must have been like to put up the Great Wall of China. At one point, 7,000 workers were toiling on the stadium, […]
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor (link): Audrey Eu never imagined public life, let alone fame. But she’s become something new in Hong Kong: A politician with star quality. She’s a lawyer – the former head of the Hong Kong Bar who believes deeply that Hong Kong will not get full democracy unless it fights harder. […]
Read MoreFrom the Health Times via People’s Daily (link), translated by CDT (All names in the story are not real): Lin Hui, 29 when he died last year, hit his head 11 years ago against an electricity pole and picked up a slight form of epilepsy. A year later, Lin lost his sight one day while […]
Read MoreFrom Yulun Jiandu (link), translated by CDT: Li Xinde, citizen journalist who runs the web site Yulun Jiandu, a corruption whistle blower, prides himself on being the first to expose corruption of Jining vice mayor, Li Xin, of Shandong Province in the summer of 2004. See also Southern Weekend’s “The Vice Mayor Who Knelt To […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua via China Daiy (link): Beijing will build 110 star hotels to cope with the demand for accommodation during the 2008 Olympic Games. “The planned 110 hotels will range from one star to five stars, with a majority of them targeting high-end guests,” Du Jiang, director of Beijing Tourism Bureau, said at a seminar […]
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