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.
Images here are of a showroom of yellow rosewood furniture replicated from a Ming Dynasty intellectual residence and a yellow rosewood tree, via sina.com. Translated by CDT from Xinmin Weekly (Êñ∞Ê∞ëÂë®Âàä) magazine: If you want to find the richest Chinese village, you may look elsewhere than the well-known Huaxi (ÂçéË•øÊùë). Now you may want to […]
Read MoreTranslated by CDT from Xinhua: A recent survey of 180,000 netizens has found that Beijingers hate smoking in public spaces the most. And it pollutes the city’s air. Second and third most disliked bad habits are, respectively, aggressive driving and extravagant home-redecoration pollution. This is part of the clean air industries association’s campaign to “create […]
Read MoreLi Xinde, the renowned citizen journalist who lugs his laptop across the country in search of wrongdoing to expose, has added another trophy to his corruption shelf. This one is the biggest so far. Translated by CDT from Yulun...
Read MoreA series of online songs is described in the Beijing Morning Post article below. The songs have set off a sort of Chinese version of last year’s CNN-Daily Show dust-up, in which CNN is a group of traditional Chinese musicians and Jon Stewart is an emerging cadre of smirking Internet punk-commentators. Translated by CDT: “Mouse […]
Read MoreTranslated by CDT from Qinghai News Online: It’s no surprise to see tourism crawling all the way up the Qinghai Plateau. And it’s no wonder either more and more visitors the plateau are driving their own cars to get there. Yet, at the same time, the plateau has seen a boom in environmentalism. “We came […]
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