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.
This is standard practice in most major cities in the developed world. But China is catching up. Translated from Beijing Daily: Partly in order to make the target of 50% sorted trash collection for the city of Beijing by 2008, the Olympics host is promoting the Western-standard practice of handling everyday trash across 3,000 government […]
Read MoreTranslated from Southern Daily by CDT: It’s been learned from a working conference on managing major polluters by Shenzhen’s environmental protection bureau that the city plans to standardize the management of major polluters and hopefully it will be able to monitor the key polluting plants in real-time. Participating in the conference were 177 companies of […]
Read MoreAnother citizen-journalism piece by Li Xinde, translated from his Yulun Jiandu Net by CDT: A family with two daughters (one pictured above) pitted the grandparents against the young couple and resulted in a cop committing murder, in a case which could well become a national scandal. Daughters are second-class children, still, in many of China’s […]
Read MoreRefurbished tires may be another “made in China” scare story, but with limited, domestic significance. Translated from China Quality 5,000-km Patrol magazine (‰∏≠ÂõΩË¥®Èáè‰∏áÈáåË°å) by CDT: Mr. Liu, an Urumqi cargo truck driver, happened to see a mini-truck on the side of a road that was shipping six or seven tires, all looking new. With four […]
Read MoreHere are a series of old photos that capture the lives, people and items of the era of 1980s, when China was just opening up and taking off economically. Photos via focus.com.cn forum.
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