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 China Daily via People’s Daily online (link): Chinese Olympic table tennis champion Chen Qi says he feels like a “new person” after completing the last set of punishments for losing his temper in an international competition. The 21-year-old had already made an open apology, was drilled in a military boot camp and handed out […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua via China Daily (link): China’s online dating market is expected to reach 653 million yuan (about 81 million U.S. dollars ) by 2008, with an annual growth rate of 60 percent, according to a recent iResearch report. The report values the online dating market at 37 million yuan (some 4.5 million dollars) for […]
Read MoreFrom the Z+Blog (link): An interview with Jonathan Spence, one of the foremost scholars of Chinese civilization from the 16th century to the present and Sterling Professor of History at Yale University, about the historical context behind these most recent eruptions of anti-Japanese fervor: I think Japan is a genuine wound. I see it in […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia (link): A former student leader of China’s 1989 pro-democracy protests has expressed deep remorse for the actions of the students in handing over to authorities three men from Hunan who defaced the portrait of Chairman Mao at Tiananmen Square. “In regard to the three people including Lu Decheng defacing the Mao […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily (link): A man surnamed Zou, was sentenced to one year in prison by the Chongwen District People’s Court in Beijing, for organizing a gay party through the internet, the website of the China News Service reported on Friday. Zou, an Internet fan, was inspired by the news about a “Gay Hotel” on […]
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