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 Yulun Jiandu (link), translated by CDT: In a letter addressed to Zhang Chunxian, Hunan’s provincial party secretary, a whistle blower from a village in Yizhang County of Chenzhou laid out his efforts to report on corruption and the life-threatening tribulation he has gone through with his family. Huang Yuanxun, a farmer who taught himself […]
Read MoreFrom Oriental Net via Yulun Jiandu (link), translated by CDT: The legacy of Lei Yuanli, former vice mayor of Hunan‘s Chenzhou City and party secretary of Yongxing County, includes impressive urbanization projects that changed the local landscape, a county version of the People’s Congress Hall at Yongxing, and massive debts from his construction programs. “People […]
Read MoreFrom the EastSouthWestNorth blog (link): “In the past, when I had free time, I did this.” 55-year-old Jia Zitan stretched out his arms in front of him and shuffled the imaginary mahjong tiles. “How am I going to find the time for that now?” In September last year, “The Chinese Villager Self-Rule Visual Communication Program” […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via the Washington Post (link): China installed a controversial new Catholic bishop on Sunday in a ceremony reflecting the split between the Vatican and the Chinese state-run church that divides villagers in this heavily Catholic corner of the country. Zhan Silu presided over a Mass marking his appointment as bishop of Mindong Diocese […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via the Washington Post (link): Construction on China’s Three Gorges Dam is set to finish next week but its critics warn the lessons about the environmental consequences of the world’s largest hydropower project have yet to be learned. With the last of the concrete being poured nearly a decade after China stemmed the […]
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