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 Li Xinde’s Yulun Jiandu, translated by CDT (photo: bad grapes grown after using the fake pesticide, via Yulun Jiandu): Almost two years after 52 grape-growing families at Huangguaying Village of Heishi Township in Panshi City, Jilin Province (ÂêâÊûóÁúÅÁ£êÁü≥Â∏ÇȪíÁü≥ÈïáȪÑÁìúËê•Êùë), fell victim to a fake pesticide scam, their 50 combined acres of grape farms have become […]
Read MoreThis week’s edition of CDT ChinaCast’s Foreign Correspondents Series features Federico Rampini, Beijing correspondent with Italy’s la Repubblica and former visiting professor at UC Berkeley Graduate School of...
Read MoreTime for a China rise, at least in linguistic terms? American execs are preparing their kids for China, and its market, starting with the language. From the Wall Street Journal: Pammy Boneparth already had a full schedule of AP courses and after-school sports when she decided to squeeze in a Mandarin class this school year. […]
Read MoreTime to become a “sea turtle (ʵ∑ÂΩí)?” So says the Wall Street Journal: When Zhe Xu receives his M.B.A. degree from the University of California at Berkeley this spring, he will hop a plane back to his native China for a job in management consulting rather than seek employment in the U.S. Just a few […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghai Daily (photo: a bookstore goer snaps a photo from a book with a cell phone, via Xinhua): Several bookstore owners in the city are unhappy about an increase in the number of people taking photos of pages in expensive books so they don’t have to pay for them. The bookstore shutterbugs, who are […]
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