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 Tim Johnson’s China Rises blog: With some regularity, I stumble across essays or reports on China with some detail or factoid that seems extraordinary – maybe even too extraordinary. On occasion, I will try to do a little research myself. If I can’t substantiate the “fact,” I file it away in a mental category […]
Read MoreFrom China Herald blog: A debate is emerging on the internet whether Google has for its newly released pinyin input system stolen the vocabulary of its competitor Sogou. When the US search engine would have committed such a gross infringement of the intellectual property of a competitor, even though it would have been done by […]
Read MoreAnother major assault on the press by people with means, and wealth. EastSouthWestNorth blog has translated reports from Apple daily and Netease (photo: an illustration of the beating scene by Apple Daily): CCTV reporter Wang Liping said that their team of three persons were gathering news in Zhugezhuang town, Changli county, Qinhuangdao city yesterday morning […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times (photo: seized counterfeit Nike shoes by Tianjin Customs, via customs.gov.cn): After months of prodding China to crack down on pirated copies of American movies, music and software, the Bush administration appears ready to escalate the dispute into a legal confrontation. In recent weeks, administration officials have strongly hinted that they […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via PlanetArk.org (Beijing officials testing towels at a small commodities market, via thebeijingnews.com): Provincial officials in northern China have closed nine factories and seized about 1 million towels that had been dyed using banned toxic chemicals, local media reported on Wednesday. Authorities in Hebei province had confiscated 40 tonnes of industrial dye following […]
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