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 blog: I recently wrote an article about homosexuality in China, the gist of which was that gays in China’s cities feel freer than ever _ except for one aspect. They endure huge family pressure to marry and bear offspring. Many gays marry, have a baby, then divorce. Click here for the story. […]
Read MoreFrom McClathcy Newspaper’s Tim Johnson’s blog (photo: Helium-3 via pbs.org): This theory has been floating around for years, and China has officially denied that it plans to dig up helium-3 on the moon. Helium-3, you may remember, is a substance rare on Earth but apparently abundant on the powdery surface of the moon. It has […]
Read MoreOrders canceled by Disney on sweatshop. Social responsibility upheld? Not really. From Interlocals.net: Huangxing Light Manufacturing is an OEM factory supplying souvenirs for The Walt Disney Company in Longgang (ÈæôÂ≤ó) area, Shenzhen, China. Last year it was criticized by concern groups as a sweatshop. Yet Disney company did not work on improving its labour condition. […]
Read MoreHere is an unusal list of Chinese officials who are involved in muder or suicide cases, via Yulun Jiandu (translated by CDT): Xu Fa (ÂæêÂèë), chief of Heilongjiang provincial procuratorate, jumped out of his 9th-floor apartment in 2006, died. He was earlier found to have been involved in an office-selling case and would have been […]
Read MoreChina, to a certain extent, is an architect’s paradise, and one for magnificent government buildings and complexes. This one, in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, will not be the last. From Yulun Jiandu Wang (ËàÜËÆ∫ÁõëÁù£ÁΩë), translated by CDT (photos: bird’s-eye views of Huiji District Govplex, via Xinhua, with story in Chinese): Feng Liucheng (ÂÜØÂàòÊàê), now former […]
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