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): He Qingzhi’s teenage daughter, Yuan, and her two friends lived on the same street near the Yangtze River, attended the same middle school and were crushed to death in the same traffic accident late last year. After that, the symmetry ended: under Chinese law, Yuan’s life was worth less […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua News Agency (link): Kuomintang Honorary Chairman Lien Chan left for Beijing Thursday morning to attend a cross-Straits economic and trade forum to be held in Beijing. According to the local media in Taiwan, Lien delivered a short speech at the airport before departure. He said that in addition to attending the forum, he […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily (link): The U.S.-based Applied Materials Inc. clinched a deal this week with the high-tech development zone in Xi’an to build a global R&D center in this capital city of northwest China’s Shaanxi Province. The American company will invest US$255 million into the project, designed to be another global tech center outside its […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua via China Daily (link): About 15.45 million Chinese from the mainland are expected to visit foreign destinations in the first half of this year amid booming outbound Asia-Pacific tourists, indicated a survey by credit card company MasterCard International. The prediction on a half-year basis indicates that more Chinese tourists will spend their holidays […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily (link): Chicago-based Boeing has plans for a joint venture maintenance centre in Shanghai in which it will hold a controlling stake, but will not actually make aeroplanes in China. The US aircraft manufacturer will continue to buy components from Chinese suppliers, added Rob Laird, vice-president of China sales for Boeing Commercial Airplanes. […]
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