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.
Authored by Willy Wo-lap Lam, reviewed by RFA Executive Editor Dan Southerland: In late 2003, China’s new president Hu Jintao made a speech celebrating the late Mao Zedong. He said not a word about Mao’s disastrous mistakes. According to author Willy Lam, this was a wake-up call for many Chinese intellectuals, who until then had […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia’s mandarin service, translated by CDT: Starting on Jan. 6, hundreds of transportation workers with the Qingyang (Â∫ÜÈò≥) Transportation Corp. of Gansu province have resorted to a sit-in in front of the city government to protest over a presumed sell-out plan by city officials to sever 1,400 workers’ employment and benefits, so […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia’s mandarin service, translated by CDT (pictured is Yao Lifa, former Qianjiang assembly member in Hubei province): Over 20,400 township level officials and 273 county or chu level (Âéø§ÑÁ∫ß) ones were punished by the Communist party’s discipline authorities last year, according to He Yong (‰ΩïÂãá), deputy secretary of the central discipline committee […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia’s mandarin service, translated by CDT: Up to 200 farmers at Sanshangang (‰∏â±±Ê∏Ø) of Nanhai district (Âçóʵ∑) in Foshan city of Guangdong put up a defense against both gangsters and the government officials who were trying to dispell them from the construction site that just started on 18,000 mu of land, worth […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia’s mandarin service, translated by CDT: More and more dissidents have been put in jail for writings and suffering for deteriorating health in recent years, and human rights laywers are calling out to international organizations, American and EU leaders to put more pressure on the Chinese authorities to win freedom of these […]
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