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.
APP, a leading paper maker, has run into a lot of problems with its aggressive, environmentally controversial paper-pulp tree swaps in Yunnan and Hainan. Now it’s having a problem of another kind, fighting thugs that steal its trees. Translated by CDT from Green China magazine: One night in July this year, some forest patrol officers […]
Read MoreA new, interesting fight is brewing, this one over which city will get the last three-digit area code (with a 2 in the middle) in China. Translated by CDT from Southern Weekend: Well known are the easy-to-remember area codes for China’s biggest cities. Beijing has 010, Guangzhou has 020, Shanghai 021, Tianjin 022, all the […]
Read MoreChina and Europe share similar concerns when it comes to energy security and the future of our changing climate. Increased cooperation lights the way ahead, writes Jennifer Morgan, published by China Dialogue: No other country has transformed itself – in just 13 years – from being a major oil exporter to being the world’s second-largest […]
Read MoreA side effect of China’s yawning economic inequality. Translated by CDT from China Economy Weekly magazine (‰∏≠ÂõΩÁªèʵéÂë®Âàä): Liu Jianbing (Âàòª∫ÂÖµ), a pseudonym, was recently a principal of a rural elementary school at Shuozhou City (ÊúîÂ∑û) in Shanxi Province. He just resigned from the school, after years of continual dropping of enrollments at his school. In […]
Read MoreLooks like another Cnooc scenario. Maybe not quite, cause this time may be different. From the New York Times: China Citic Bank is bidding to buy a stake in Bear Stearns, a senior Chinese regulator said on Tuesday, in the first official confirmation of media reports that the state-run bank is a potential suitor for […]
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