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.
Chinese are also dying from tainted exports. This time the boss. Translated from Southern Metro Daily: A phone call went to a reporter and the other end of the line said the boss of Foshan Lida Toys (Âà©ËææÁé©ÂÖ∑), whose nearly 1 million toys exported to US were recalled, killed himself at his own plant at […]
Read MoreThis may become a lightning rod to draw controversy. Translated from Beijing Morning Post: Shanghai’s Jiaotong University (‰∏äʵ∑‰∫§ÈÄö§ßÂ≠¶), a prestigious engineering school, published its 2007 university ranking on Saturday, on which Harvard, Stanford and UC Berkeley top the list. What’s surprising, or not, is China’s top schools only rank as low as 167th and 228th […]
Read MoreA wake-up call to save the Yangtze, while the Taihu lake pollution saga is on everybody’s minds, translated from China Environment Daily: The Yangtze River is known as one of the country’s “mother rivers,” feeding 400 million Chinese in 11 provinces, including Shanghai. It is also host to nearly 10,000 chemical plants, out of total […]
Read MoreThere’s a consensus that Chinese polluters don’t worry too much about fines. Now it looks as if things may change, starting in Jiangsu Province. Translated from Xinhua: Eleven years after the introduction of the “Regulation on Prevention of Water Pollution in Jiangsu’s Taihu Lake” (ʱüËãèÁúŧ™ÊπñʵÅÂüüÊ∞¥Ê±°ÊüìÈò≤Ê≤ªÊù°‰æã), the provincial government now has to toughen its environmental laws […]
Read MoreSuch a vast sum has had some effect, but the air in Beijing is still quite a bit less than lung-friendly. Translated from the Beijing News: Amidst much criticism of Beijing’s air quality, the city’s government has spent 120 billion yuan trying to solve the problem–20 billion for last year alone. These numbers are unprecedented […]
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