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 Reuters via the Washington Post (link): China’s army recruits can look forward to a better night’s sleep thanks to a new regulation banning chronic snorers from joining up. One of a raft of physical and mental traits banned from the army, the new standards governing recruitment into China’s military schools also blacklist drug-takers, […]
Read MoreFrom the Reuters via the New York Times (link): A vice mayor of Shanghai defended the Chinese commercial hub’s treatment of thousands of people who are being forced from their homes to make way for the 2010 World Expo, saying they are paid appropriate compensation. The moving of the 18,000 households for the exposition, which […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua News Agency (link): Instead of exercising in parks or shopping in wet markets, some senior parents in Yangpu District in Shanghai have a different routine every morning – they line up at a bus terminal so that their children can sleep longer and still get a bus seat to school. Some call it […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post (link): In years past, the Chinese government’s poor human rights record was only a problem for you if you happened to be Chinese. But as China’s power and influence in Asia grow, its hostility toward human rights is becoming a problem for non-Chinese, too. Propelled mostly by economic opportunism, China is […]
Read MoreFrom NewsMax (link): In a sharp break with official U.S. policy towards the two Chinas, Sen. Dianne Feinstein announced on Thursday that America is under no obligation to defend Taiwan if the tiny island democracy is attacked by Communist China. “It is important to point out a common misconception,” Feinstein told a gathering of Chinese-American […]
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