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.
Translated by CDT from Elite Reference (青年参考): In a Taiwan Defense Department report to its Legislative Yuan on Taiwanese armed forces’ combat morale level on December 12, more than half of the island’s military officials and soldiers say a war across the straits is likely, a sharp increase over the 17% who thought so before […]
Read MoreQuite an “achievement” for Beijing, home to three of Time magazine’s 10 architectural mavels for 2007. From time.com: #6 | Olympic Stadium, Beijing Athletes at the Summer Games will compete in a nestlike venue by Herzog & de Meuron. #7 | CCTV Headquarters, Beijing A tetrahedronal structure by Rem Koolhaas will be the most radically […]
Read MoreA commentary from People Online via sina.com. Translated by CDT: Liquor consumption is an open secret at a lot of Chinese luncheons and dinners, but the late Kaiping (开平) secretary Zhao Ruizhang (赵瑞彰) took it to the extreme level of getting as wasted as he could. Since 2003, when he took over the city in […]
Read MoreTranslated by CDT from People Online via sina.com: With skyrocketing housing and pork prices, inflation, not surprisingly, has topped the list of concerns in a recent survey of officials who are in Beijing attending a Party School study session. The survey, started in 1998, sent out 170 questionnaires and received 154 effective returns, covering a […]
Read MoreThe number of sad stories, like the water level, has kept rising, or surfacing to be exact. From AFP: Life was never easy for peasant farmer Fu Xiuqiong, but since China’s Three Gorges Reservoir began to fill in 2003, she has barely kept her head above water. In a story common for this small town […]
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