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 Taipei Times (link): A private constitutional reengineering group yesterday unveiled its first version of proposed constitutional amendments, which would give the public the ability to initiate future constitutional revisions and adopt a two-house legislative system. Currently, only the legislature or the president can initiate constitutional revisions. The group did not make a recommendation […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily (link): Water experts yesterday called for a stop to an ongoing project to cover a riverbed with an impermeable plastic cover to create a man-made lake in Jinan to be scrapped. Experts worry the plastic will disrupt the natural process of river water seeping into the ground, which they said would threaten […]
Read MoreFrom AP via the Washington Post (link): NASA Administrator Michael Griffin has accepted an invitation to visit China to start talks on possibly cooperating with the Chinese in some areas of space. “I think the United States always benefits from discussions and I do not see how it can hurt us,” Griffin told members of […]
Read MoreFrom AP via the Washington Post (link): China’s refusal to hold a summit with Japan because of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi‘s visits to a Tokyo war shrine is “incomprehensible,” he said Tuesday. China has refused to meet with Koizumi in recent years, in part to protest his annual visits to Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japan’s […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times (link): Karl Marx‘s birthplace is a stately three-story house that has been a fixture of this ancient town on the Mosel River since it was built in 1727. What is changing are the large groups that visit almost every day from China, one of the few countries in the world […]
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