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 BBC News: Chinese and Russian firms are planning to spend $10bn (¬£5.4bn) on building power plants in north east China, Beijing media says. The China Daily said that the sites would be fuelled by coal from Siberia. China’s State Grid Corp and Russia’s Unified Energy systems are behind the project, the report said. The […]
Read MoreShanghai is reining in property buying by foreigners, if they want to buy a second one especially. Some may wonder whether this has anything to do with Chen Liangyu’s fall. Maybe not. District transaction centers in Pudong New Area and Jing’an, Xuhui and Baoshan districts have stopped accepting applications from foreigners and Hong Kong, Taiwan […]
Read MoreReflections from BBC correspondent Rupert Wingfield Hayes, who has been called to frequent meetings by officials from the foreign ministry keen to discuss the way he covers China for the BBC: “Why are you so down on China?” is a refrain I have got used to hearing. And not just from the foreign ministry. … […]
Read MoreIn the picture here, thousands of farmers in Yuxi‘s Hongta District in Yunnan Province became urban citizens after their land was seized for vanity projects. Landless now, these former farmers mostly live on up to 30,000 yuan of land compensation and a meager 10 yuan/month stipend. Most people cannot afford to see a doctor in […]
Read MoreSeems that Chinese love crowds. Mainlanders just had another National Day holiday with floods of people traveling across the country, now there is a second protest in Taiwan calling for the resignation of Chen Shui-bian. From BBC News: Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators have been surrounding the presidential office in Taiwan, calling on President Chen […]
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