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 Telegraph’s Richard Spencer chews on the New York Times story that suggests the US may be doubtful of Chinese leadership’s witting-ness of the anti-satellite missile test (photo from Reuters via the blog): In particular, I am referring to the Bush administration’s national security adviser, Stephen Hadley, who asks: “The question on something like this […]
Read MoreWall Street Journal’s page one story on liushou ertong (ÁïôÂÆàÂÑøÁ´•) (photo: left-behind children via BBC News): In a sparsely furnished farmhouse, about a half mile from a main road in the poor, rural province of Anhui, 16-year-old Zhao Yan has lived on her own for more than two years. She goes to school, tends to […]
Read MoreRecent Beijing Review magazine’s top story on China’s journey to solve energy shortage but face another challenge – food security: Yushu City (ʶÜʆë) in northeast Jilin Province has been the country’s top grain producer for the last three years, yielding a total of around 2.4 million tons of grain every year, of which 1.8 million […]
Read MoreNo time for celebration yet. More tough road ahead. From Xinhua via Beijing Review (chart: China’s energy efficiency investment declined as a proportion of total energy investment, via Lawrence Berkeley National Lab): China saw its energy consumption per unit of gross domestic product (GDP) value drop from the third quarter of 2006, the first fall […]
Read MoreA fun life-journal piece from the Christian Science Monitor about getting a driver’s license for a foreigner: The Chinese authorities make it both easy and hard to get a license. Easy, because if you already have a foreign license, you don’t have to take the practical test and also (and this is a BIG easy) […]
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