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 News Agency (link): The 11th China International Boat Show opened at the Shanghai Exhibition Center on the 6th, when 300-odd global leisure yacht manufacturers, such as the world’s largest, B√©n√©teau S.A., and France’s top yacht brand Jeanneau, showed up one after another. Statistics show that in the recent decade, only around 100 yachts […]
Read MoreFrom Beijing Review (link): At first glance, the official figures of China’s oil consumption in 2005 seem a bit confusing. With a robust economic growth and rising annual oil imports, China made the surprise announcement that its oil consumption growth rate was dropping sharply, from 15.3 percent in 2004 to 2.1 percent in 2005. Earlier, […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua via China Daily (link): Wang Xiaodong, a 35-year-old gay man in southwest China’s Sichuan Province, has spent 6,000 hours over the past three years on volunteer work to help in the fight against HIV/AIDS. In December 2004, the Ministry of Health published for the first time the number of Chinese homosexuals as five […]
Read MoreFrom Los Angeles Times (link): In little more than a year on the job, Stanley Cheung, Disney‘s chief in China, can lay claim to this: “The Lion King” is coming to Shanghai this summer. “We have got to get our stories out,” says Cheung, a Hong Kong native who previously managed the Chinese operations of […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times (link): Just because Wu Man plays the pipa, an ancient Chinese lute, there was no reason to suppose that her program on Thursday evening at Zankel Hall would focus on traditional Chinese music. The concert was, after all, part of the Kronos Quartet‘s “Live Mix” series, and when Kronos is […]
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