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.
A netizen, after research, compiled 12 categories of “Guinness records” of corrupt officials who keep mistresses, posted at xici.net’s Reporters Home section, via Southeast Express newspaper: Quantity: Mr. Zha...
Read MoreAn Oct. 16 program of CCTV’s News Probe (Chinese) tells a story about devastated parents, some of whom sold all their property and ran into big debts to come up with hefty bills for as much as 900,000 yuan ($11,000) to treat their little kids’ thalassemia (Âú∞‰∏≠ʵ∑Ë¥´Ë°ÄÁóá) at Guangzhou Zhujiang Hospital (ÂπøÂ∑ûÁè†Ê±üÂåªÈô¢). They were among […]
Read MoreA Yahoo China’s article about China’s immensely skewed wealth distribution was reposted by Reporters’ Home on Xici.net: China’s 1.5 million families, or 0.4% of its total, own 70% of the country’s wealth, according to a latest report by Boston Consulting published on Oct. 17. In developed countries, usually 5% of the households account for 50-60% […]
Read MoreWant to go to see the Great Wall without making the trip up to Beijing? “Come to my factory then,” says the boss of Shengxin Food Factory (Âú£ÂøÉÈ£üÂìÅÂéÇ) at the Chashan Township Industrial Park (Ëå∂±±ÈïáÂ∑•‰∏öÂõ≠) in Dongguan City of Guangdong Province. He built a 30-meter-long, 6-meter-high mini Great Wall inside his own plant and hopes […]
Read MoreReady? Set, Go!!! (An amateurish Tibetan independence protest clip below) Did you know: China will spend more than $400 billion through 2010 building airports, roads, water systems and infrastructure projects, according to today’s Wall Street Journal. Three major tabs: $40 billion for the Beijing Olympics (by 2008, 3 times that of Athens’s infrastructure spending), $41 […]
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