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 Xinhua News Agency (link): A dozen of major Beijing-based Internet portals have called for the industry’s joint efforts to clean their Websites off unhealthy contents, especially messages of sex and violence. In a joint proposal drawn up on Sunday, owners of 14 websites, including Sina.com, Sohu.com, Baidu.com, and Yahoo’s Chinese Website, called on all […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily (link): The Beijing authorities’ decision to put the Badaling section of the Great Wall back under State management is a distinct possibility. Furthermore, all the revenue from entrance tickets at the section will go towards relics protection. This move comes as the municipal government shows an eagerness to protect the pride of […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times (link): From 2000 to 2005, it accounted for more than 90 per cent of growth in seaborne iron ore trade, according to Macquarie Research. Between 1994 and 2003, China was responsible for 54 per cent of growth in global copper consumption. While growth in demand for such commodities is set to slow, […]
Read MoreFrom Christian Science Monitor (link): A year after rocks and bottles peppered Japanese businesses and diplomatic offices in the most public anti-Japanese outbursts in urban China for decades, relations between the two largest Asian powers have, if anything, frozen further. In a little-noticed development, Chinese leader Hu Jintao appears for the first time to be […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times (link): Like all conscientious Chinese sovereigns, Emperor Kangxi took his role as court of final appeal for the vast country’s judicial death sentences with the utmost seriousness. “[The ruler] knows that administrative errors in government bureaux can be rectified, but that a criminal who has been executed cannot be brought back […]
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