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.
Some new, weird numbers to chew on. From Shanghai Youth Daily via sina.com.cn, translated by CDT: A recently released paper, China Modernization Report 2007 (‰∏≠ÂõΩÁé∞‰ª£ÂåñÊä•Âëä2007), predicts that China will fully complete its “first modernization” by 2015, based on the growth rate between 1980 and 2004, meaning in eight years China will be as rich as […]
Read MoreAnother corruption-fighting hurricane, or a ceremonial slogan chanting? Let’s see. From Reuters via China Daily (photo: red envelopes used by Chinese to hand out cash gifts during traditional Chinese New Year, etc.): “Holiday corruption has seriously hampered economic development and the building of harmonious society,” Xinhua news agency on Saturday quoted Xu Guangchun, secretary of […]
Read MoreFirst (American) football, now baseball. China is getting more magnetic, it seems, in everything. Yankees wants to establish a toehold in a potentially sports power too. From the New York Times: The Yankees consider themselves the most driven team in a competitive sport, so their push to boost baseball in China is not purely altruistic. […]
Read MoreChina rises, so does Chinese taste and yearning for upper-class lifestyle. Good news for wine dealers et al. From Washington Post (photo: celebration with Great Wall wine at the Great Wall, via travelwithachallenge.com): Cocooned in a wood-paneled, members-only bar on the 50th floor of a private business club, Yao Yi, a corporate lawyer in Beijing, […]
Read MoreA sharp argument in the Financial Times, again, on China’s anti-satellite missile test that exposes the consequences of the U.S.’s many failings (photo from pravda.ru): On this occasion, as before, China has put into practice a ruthless, rational and legally defensible strategy that exploits a key weakness of the world’s biggest economy and sole military […]
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