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 China.org: Hongji Landbridge Investment Development Inc., a construction firm in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, was slapped with a 500,000 yuan (US$63,776) fine for deliberately damaging the Great Wall, according to the local cultural heritage protection bureau. The company began building a highway through a section of the Great Wall in Ulanqab City […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Miaosun and his friends rise early, sometimes before dawn. Wearing their distinctive Green Eyes China (Chinese) baseball caps they move through the market quickly, recording what they see with video cameras. Endangered breeds of frogs, snakes, owls and eagles are for sale – some already prepared for the cooking pot. It was […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia’s Mandarin service, translated by CDT: Approaching the first anniversary of the Dec. 6 Dongzhou shooting incident last winter, local police and officials have started patrolling and imposing an information blackout around the villages where a military crackdown occurred last year, according to Radio Free Asia. Villagers say there will be some […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia’s Mandarin Service, translated by CDT: Chinese farmers have long taken the brunt of relocation or other land grabbing projects in rural China. Now plans to build a panda site in Sichuan‘s Chengdu City have reportedly turned into violence against local villagers in at Huilong (ÂõûÈæôÊùë), where people refused to move due […]
Read MoreFrom YouTube, about Chinese catch 21 and tough tug-of-war between drivers and pedestrians. Here in Shenzhen, logged tapes showing how Chinese pedestrians are walking the Berkeleyan way of the road. But here cars don’t yield to them.
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