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 (link): In the early 1990’s, when Chinese contemporary art was just beginning to take off, a young painter here named Zhou Tiehai came up with an ambitious plan to make himself famous. He would succeed by beating the art market at its own game, exposing its commercialism while exploiting it […]
Read MoreFrom the Los Angeles Times (link): China’s richest man has amassed a fortune of nearly $2 billion but lives like a frugal accountant. After leaving his 32-story office tower at night, Huang Guangyu returns to a modest apartment he shares with his wife and two daughters in southwest Beijing. He shuns the golfing craze sweeping […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News (link): The Vatican has asked China’s state-controlled Catholic Church to halt the ordination of a bishop who has not been approved by Pope Benedict XVI. Father Ma Yingling is to be ordained as bishop of Kunming on Sunday. The Chinese Church does not recognise the Vatican’s right to name bishops, although recent […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post (link): There are many places in the world where you might expect to encounter Lu Chuan. Were the scholarly looking, bespectacled Lu to instruct you on economics from behind a university lectern, you would think it appropriate. Here is where you definitely do not expect to encounter him: on a wind-swept […]
Read MoreColumn from the Washington Post (link): Ever since liberalism emerged in the 18th century, its inevitable conflict with autocracy has helped shape international politics. What James Madison called “the great struggle of the epoch between liberty and despotism” dominated much of the 19th century and most of the 20th, when liberal powers lined up against […]
Read More
Click on the image to download Firefly for circumvention
CDT is a non-profit media site, and we need your support. Your contribution will help us provide more translations, breaking news, and other content you love.
