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.
People of the Year from Southern Weekend for 2007. Translated by CDT: Some of them are Xiamen natives, some “new” Xiameners who moved to the city within the past 20 years, some found their first jobs in the coastal city. They didn’t know each other, but, for their own and the city’s general interests, they […]
Read MoreWorkers work on a pipeline that delivers gas from China’s West to the East, via www.meshrep.com
Read MoreTenth installment of the New York Times’ environmental series Choking on Growth [Image: Beijing traffic via nytimes.com]: Every day, monitoring stations across the city measure air pollution to determine if the skies above this national capital can officially be designated blue. It is not an act of whimsy: with Beijing preparing to play host to […]
Read MoreThis is Qin Yu (秦裕), yet another domino tile among the many downed in the Shanghai pension fund scandal following the downfall of former Shanghai Party chief Chen Liangyu. Translated by CDT from Xinhua: Known as Shanghai’s “super secretary (上海第一秘)” and “one-month district governor (一个月区长),” Qin Yu served as secretary to Chen Liangyu when Chen […]
Read MoreFrom Oriental Morning Post (东方早报), translated by CDT: In the more than 130 years since Shanghai been taking annual temperature readings, according to municipal meteorological experts, the city’s five hottest years have all occurred in the last decade: 2002 (17.8 degrees Celsius), 1998 (18.0), 2004 (18.1), 2006 (18.3) and, now, 2007 (18.4), the hottest year […]
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