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 USA Today (link): Emerging markets built big gains from BRIC this year ” Brazil, Russia, India and China. The average emerging markets fund gained 12.6% in the first three months of 2006. The BRIC countries have done even better, especially when translated into U.S. dollars. “We’re big believers in the BRIC story,” says […]
Read MoreFrom the Los Angeles Times (link): For the staff at the Universal Hilton Hotel, the scene was business as usual: security guards barking into their headphones, holding back angry photographers and frustrated reporters trying to sweet-talk their way into the inner sanctum. But the person everyone was fighting to see ” a diminutive, gray-haired woman […]
Read MoreFrom the Los Angeles Times (link): Since China’s economic boom helped boost its international standing and national confidence, the country has begun a quest to reclaim art and relics lost or stolen during decades of foreign domination and occupation. Zhoukoudian officials believe that finding the fossils will allow scientists to undertake additional study and help […]
Read MoreFrom Zhejiang Daily via Xinhua News Agency (in Chinese), translated by CDT (link): Wenzhou‘s 14 shoe making firms have joined hands in filing a protest against the EU‘s recent anti-dumping tax on the shoes made by these Chinese companies. They also encouraged all the Chinese companied involved to stand up hand in hand. The EU’s […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua News Agency via sina.com (in Chinese), translated by CDT (link): Li Changchun, one of the nine most powerful politburo members, urged to seriously study an important speech by President Hu Jintao about developing socialist perspective on grace and shame. He said people should carry out a socialist moral construction based on “eight graces […]
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