FALL 2004 SEMINAR SERIES

Topics in International Technology Management:
Cross-border partnering in Asia: Globalization challenges for high-tech industries

Michael Zielenziger
Visiting Scholar, Institute of East Asian Studies, U of C, Berkeley

Michael Zielenziger, now a visiting scholar at the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California - Berkeley, was the Tokyo-based bureau chief for Knight Ridder Newspapers, publishers of The Philadelphia Inquirer, The San Jose Mercury News, and more than 30 other U.S. newspapers for seven years, until May, 2003. He has written extensively about social, economic and political trends in Japan, Korea, China and Southeast Asia, and is now completing a book, Shutting Out the Sun, which explains the nature of Japan's "lost decade" through an in-depth analysis of Japan's unique social psychology. The work is to be published by Nan A. Talese / Doubleday in 2005. He is a 2003-04 recipient of an Abe Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council of New York. As a Tokyo-based foreign correspondent, Zielenziger traveled extensively throughout Asia, covering two Philippine revolutions, the IMF crisis in South Korea, the removal of Suharto and the election of Gus Dur in Indonesia, and the efforts of tiny Bhutan to wrestle with the impacts of globalization. After September 11, 2001 Zielenziger also spent long periods in Pakistan, Afghanistan, India and Israel, covering the aftermath of the terrorist attacks. Before moving to Tokyo, Zielenziger served as the first Pacific Rim correspondent for The San Jose Mercury News, the newspaper of Silicon Valley, where he helped described the connections between Asia and the U.S. West Coast. He was a finalist for a 1995 Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting for a series describing the efforts of Overseas Chinese to propel the modernization of China. He was also a contributor to two other Pulitzer Prizes awarded to the Mercury News; one described the "hidden wealth" accumulated by then Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos. Zielenziger was a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University in 1991, where he studied in the Asia-Pacific Research Center and Stanford's Graduate School of Business. Previously, he opened Knight Ridder's first Seattle bureau and worked for The Chicago Sun-Times and The Kansas City Star. He is a graduate of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.

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