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 via sina.com (in Chinese), translated by CDT (link): Visiting Turkmenistan President signed an agreement with Chinese President Hu Jintao in Beijing to expand cooperation between the two countries, especially in the energy sector. Concerned agencies from the two countries, the agreement says, will speed up the research and implementation of China-Turkmenistan […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times Magazine (link): Pearl Lam knows what we think about when we think about Chinese design: “Fakes. All those counterfeit Louis Vuitton bags. The miles of Prada and Christian Dior. Or Ming chairs, reproduced over and over. It’s very depressing. But we can’t move into the 21st century unless we confront […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times (link): Song Tiping, a peasant from rural Jiangsu Province, and Bernie Kearsley-pratt, an Australian executive, would not at first glance seem to have much in common, and they do not, except for one thing: both were drawn here by the unlikely financial promise of garbage, towering mountains of refuse that […]
Read MoreFrom China Youth Daily via Xinhua News Agency (in Chinese), translated by CDT (link): A farmer from Dayaopu Village of Cheng’an County in Hebei Province, as a representative from the public, recently sat in at a county party standing committee meeting about personnel changes of eight county cadres. The county will, from the second half […]
Read MoreFrom China Youth Daily via Xinhua News Agency (in Chinese), translated by CDT (link): A forum on “China Dream and Harmonious Society” was held on April 2 by China’s International Relations Society, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Tianjin Foreign Studies University and China Foreign Affairs University at the Diaoyutai Guesthouse in Beijing. More than 100 participants […]
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