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 BBC News (link): The completion of the Tibet railway is being hailed in China as one of the world’s great engineering marvels. The longest high-altitude railway in the world, it will ease access to the remote region. Test runs are due to begin on 1 July. Tibet’s extraordinary isolation has kept it poor. Education […]
Read MoreFrom the People’s Daily Online via Xinhua News Agency (link): China will launch Shenzhou VII with three astronauts in September 2008, after the Beijing Olympic Games, said Song Zhengyu, deputy director-designer of carrier rocket F of March II and research fellow of the first institute of the China Aerospace Science & Technology Corp (CASTC). After […]
Read MoreFrom the Taipei Times (link): The public is almost evenly split over whether the US would come to Taiwan’s defense if China attacked, an opinion poll suggested yesterday. The poll conducted by the Taiwan Thinktank on the meeting last week between US President George W. Bush and Chinese President Hu Jintao indicated that 52 percent […]
Read MoreFrom the Phoenix Weekly, translated by the EastSouthWestNorth blog (link): On February 28, 2006, at the Middle People’s Court of Shenyashan city, Heilongjiang province, seven armed police officers in camouflage uniforms were spread out in star-shaped formation at the courthouse entrance with sub-machine guns in their hands pointed skywards. A large group of police officers […]
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