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 Xinhua News Agency (link): The State Environment Protection Administration (SEPA) of China vowed recently to tackle the serious environmental problems that may trigger mass protests over pollution. Mass protests of such kind have been on the rise in recent years, increasing at a rate of almost 30 percent a year, and they often occurred […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia (link): Groups of parents throughout China have formed a last-ditch alliance in the hope of recovering their missing children, who are believed to have been kidnapped and sold in a booming adoption, bridal and sex trade in human beings. While the phenomenon occurs right across China, recent interviews with migrant workers […]
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor (link): A quiet battle over whether the only free and independent broadcaster on the land mass of China will remain so is intensifying. Over a 77-year span, Hong Kong public radio has dished out a blend of credible news and cultural programming in three languages, served as a link between […]
Read MoreFrom the Radio Free Asia (link): Uyghur Muslim families in China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang are feeling the devastating impact of the heroin trade as drug-trafficking routes become well-established, bringing addiction, crime, and HIV/AIDS infection in their wake. “Drug addicts are increasing now, and they are young Uyghur men and boys,” a drug-trafficking enforcement officer […]
Read MoreFrom the Radio Free Asia (link): Chinese authorities in the Amdo Tibetan region of northwest China have ordered Tibetan broadcasters to add fur trimmings to their traditional clothing, in an apparent jab at an anti-fur movement inspired by Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. Che Xizhen, head of the Qinghai provincial propaganda department, and […]
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