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 USA Today (link): You’d never know it from all the hand-wringing over the ballooning U.S. trade deficit, but the fastest-growing market for American exports is China. Sure, there’s plenty of friction in the Sino-U.S. trade relationship: rampant copyright violations, a Chinese currency tilted against U.S. manufacturers and the legacy of state support for favored […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times (link): Gamely donning a Boeing baseball cap and mingling enthusiastically with local business executives, President Hu Jintao of China said Wednesday that his nation and the United States “enjoy extensive common interests” and could avoid major problems in their relationship if they “avoid politicizing” the issues that divide them. He […]
Read MoreFrom New York Times (linik): ON a cold, gray day in late March, Guan Yi, one of the most influential collectors of contemporary art in China, lifted this reporter by the elbows and pushed her up a steep brick ramp of his own design, toward the second floor of his new house here. Later he […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily (link): Chinese cultural products should be further promoted to the international market to narrow China’s cultural trade deficit with other countries, top officials said. Ding Wei, assistant minister of culture, described China’s deficit in international cultural trade as “huge” at yesterday’s press conference held by the State Council Information Office. “Our statistics […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghai Daily via China Daily (link): More than 200 people in camouflage gear demolished a school of disabled and mentally retarded children and beat students who attempted to block the demolition, media reported yesterday. A Beijing court ordered the school to move out last September because it had no right to use the land […]
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