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.
A Cultural Revolution feature from BBC News (link): Survivors from the decade-long turmoil recounted their experiences for the BBC’s Chinese Service. Son of torture victim My father came back from America in 1948. He was a physician in the United States – a very honest and conscientious doctor. Because he had been in America, he […]
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor (link): For scientists and researchers in China, the Chen case, while embarrassing, is all too typical. Other fraud cases are coming to light that reveal a deeply ingrained habit of plagiarism, falsification, and corruption – widely recognized, but not widely policed or punished in Chinese universities. The stunning revelation of […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post (link): Adm. William J. Fallon, commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific, flashed what aides described as a broad grin as he sat in the cockpit of a twin-engine FB-7 fighter-bomber, China’s most advanced domestically produced warplane. “They really went out of their way to accommodate nearly everything I wanted to […]
Read MoreFrom the Ministry of Public Security (link), translated by CDT: A working meeting about the Internet management of public security agencies that ended on May 13 decided to expand the “virtual police” that is in practice in Shenzhen to eight other cities: Chongqing, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Qingdao, Xiamen, Guangzhou, Wuhan and Chengdu. According to Vice Minister […]
Read MoreFrom Times Online (link): CHINA threw down a fresh challenge to the Vatican yesterday by installing a third bishop in its state-approved Catholic church in defiance of Rome. Zhan Silu, 45, became bishop of the Mindong diocese in southeastern Fujian province, where the Catholic Church is particularly strong but where most of the faithful are […]
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