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 promotional piece by UC Berkeley’s campus newsletter about the Berkeley China Initiative via its helmsman Sociology Professor Tom Gold: When a new adaptation of the 400-year-old opera The Peony Pavilion arrived at Zellerbach Hall last month, critics proclaimed it an artistic triumph. But it was more than that. The production’s U.S. premiere marked a […]
Read MoreFrom McClatchy Newspapers’ Tim Johnson’s blog: The Chinese media love to highlight stories that illustrate how violent U.S. society is. Latest case in point: The Amish school shootings in Pennsylvania are all over the newspapers here. But get this: There was a school shooting in China, and it’s nowhere to be seen in the press. […]
Read MoreWhat’s really puzzling, at least on the surface, in some villages around some Chinese cities or towns is political candidates are offering significant cash gifts to buy votes. In one village in Inner Mongolia, villagers are receiving cash deliveries ranging from 500 to 1,000 yuan per ballot from each candidate. But as the land appreciates […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia: Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have formally arrested top civil rights lawyer Guo Feixiong, and a fellow activist says his former colleague and boss Gao Zhisheng has also been formally arrested. Guo’s wife Zhang Qing confirmed the arrest, on suspicion of “running an illegal business’, but told reporters […]
Read MoreWhich country is the most bribe-dirty in the world? You guessed it. Anti-corruption group Transparency International, according to BBC News, says there is one more: India also joins China as the worst (photo: 1998 ranking of competitiveness and corruption): Firms from China and India are most willing to pay bribes abroad to do business, a […]
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