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.
Dr. Gao Yaojie, the 80-year-old veteran AIDS fighter and national hero, was recently barred by the local government from going to Beijing to get her US visa to receive an award from US senator and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Here in the first part of a series of videos, you can learn about how Gao […]
Read MoreHere comes a detailed break-down of a monthly salary slip for a utility worker in China. The mere number of categories is overwhelming, but is a common reality in many Chinese work units, or danwei. From a post in Xici’s Reporters Home, translated by CDT: Date: Feb. 1, 2007 (salary for Jan. 2007): Division Name: […]
Read MoreZhang Wuchang (º†‰∫îÂ∏∏), (blog here) a controversial economist known as one of the founders of new system economics and modern property rights economics, said to a Southern Metropolitan Daily reporter that China doesn’t have income polarization and dismisses calculators of the “Gini Coefficient” as unworthy of being his students. The Deng Xiaoping reform admirer has […]
Read MoreFrom Wall Street Journal (photo: a “Don’t Spit” campaign during SARS, via wsj.com): On the streets of the country’s capital, spitting — often complete with loud throat-clearing, gurgling and an arc of phlegm — is a frequent occurrence. The deeply ingrained habit is found among young and old and crosses class lines. Now Chinese officials […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian’s Richard Spencer’s blog: Gao Yaojie is one of those remarkable Chinese people those of us lucky to have met her can use to rebut claims that in criticising things that go on here we are “bashing China”. Dr Gao is both very Chinese and your average, everyday grandmother. After I interviewed her […]
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