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 Radio Free Asia: Chinese authorities in Lhasa have detained two Tibetans and one Nepalese ethnic Sherpa for allegedly escorting Tibetan asylum-seekers from China into India. The detentions on Oct. 9 and 10 follow an incident on Sept. 30 in which Chinese guards opened fire on a group of Tibetans fleeing across the rugged border […]
Read MoreFrom the EastSouthWestNorth blog: A group of Renmin University pretty women took crazy photos of themselves at their graduation ceremony and they are being bitterly criticized by netizens. Foul language such as “whores,” “prostitutes,” “strumpets” have been used against these women. In actual terms, these photographs are imaginative. They are the most daring and most […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: China is struggling to find a solution on how to treat the huge amount of floating debris which is clogging up the Three Gorges Reservoir. Cao Guangjing, deputy general manager of the China Yangtze River Three Gorges Project Development Corporation, said, “We are trying to find an efficient method to develop and […]
Read MoreWeek in Review from the New York Times: The corruption scandal in Shanghai that had already taken down one of China’s most powerful officials claimed two smaller scalps last week: the chief of the national statistics bureau was fired, and an official with the Formula One racing circuit was hauled in for qut by an […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: The Yangtze River and Pearl River estuaries have been listed as newly registered “dead zones,” according to a study released by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Dead zones, or low oxygenated areas in the world’s seas and oceans, are places where nutrients from fertilizer runoff, sewage, animal waste and the burning […]
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