Michael Zhao

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.

Rich Publisher of a Poor Paper – Li Xinde

Another classic work of journalism from citizen journalist Li Xinde (Picture showing Wu Bingjing (Âê¥ÁÇ≥Êô∂), right, ushering former President Jiang Zemin during a CPPCC (‰∏≠ÂõΩÊîøÂçè) conference years ago while Wu, now publisher of China Food Daily (‰∏≠ÂõΩÈ£üÂìÅÊä•), was a staff employee of CPPCC. Wu managed to photoshop out his CPPCC employee tag and bragged he […]

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India Learns From China – WSJ

From the Week Ahead of the Wall Street Journal: New Delhi is sprucing up ahead of Monday’s arrival of Mr. Hu, China’s first head of state to come to India in a decade — there is a stray-cattle roundup under way, for example. But the nation’s capital is bedeviled by the same sort of cramped […]

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