Michael Zhao

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.

The Medals of Marathoner Ai Dongmei – ESWN blog

A sadder version of the rich selling off their used Gucci bags on Ebay, this time a former Chinese marathoner, Ai Dongmei (ËâæÂܨʢÖ) has no choice but to raise funds to survive, by putting all her medals for grabs, via EastSouthWestNorth blog (photo: the collection of all of Ai’s medals, via ESWN): My lawsuit has […]

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Why China Need Not Fear U.S. Economic Slowdown – Andrew Batson

A third of Chinese economy depends on exports, but Wall Street Journal argues that a U.S. slowdown won’t hurt China much (chart: China’s exports as percentage of GDP, via wsj.com): About a fifth of China’s exports go to the U.S., its biggest single foreign market. And those shipments have been a major driver of China’s […]

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China, U.S. taking notes on education – Mitchell Landsberg

American educators are starting to learn from China and other Asian nations good at math and science. Chinese are also learning from the West, but not so quickly, according to the Los Angeles Times (photo: a student reading from textbook in Gaoyakou Central Primary School in suburb Beijing, via latimes.com): In many ways, China and […]

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