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 China Daily (link): Hong Kong’s specific inclusion in the national 11th Five-Year Plan (2006-10) is generally well received here in the Special Administrative Region (SAR). Rafael Hui Si-yan, chief secretary for Administration of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, recently articulated his concern that Hong Kong might risk being “marginalized.” This sparked a heated […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily (link): China will pay more attention to gender mainstreaming and forming gender-sensitive policies in the development of the new countryside, said a senior official from the State Council yesterday. However, gender inequality is still very common in many poor rural areas in China, said Bettina Gransow, a professor from the Free University […]
Read MoreFrom the China Daily (link): Young or old, charity is a common undertaking of China’s rich that is, according to a newly released philanthropy report. According to the 2006 China Philanthropists List of the Hurun Report published yesterday, which names the top 100 Chinese donors, the age bracket of benefactors this year has enlarged since […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily (link): Senior officials of ministries and agencies directly dealing with intellectual property rights (IPR) were at a press conference yesterday to address questions on China’s IPR protection but Minister of Commerce Bo Xilai ended up doing most of the answering. “The main factors affecting the US-China trade balance don’t actually include IPRs. […]
Read MoreCommentary from Financial Times (link): Is a contagion of corporate nationalism spreading from the west to the east? At first sight it may seem so, as companies and politicians around Asia, particularly in its three largest economies, seek to repel unwelcome intruders from abroad. The most striking case is China. After long courting foreign investors, […]
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