An Associate Professor of Communications at Simon Fraser University, Yuehi Zhao wrote Media, Market, and Democracy in China: Between the Party Line and the Bottom Line (University of Illinois Press, 1998) and he co-wrote Sustaining Democracy?: Journalism and the Politics of Objectivity (Garamond, 1997).

As SFU's Canada Research Chair, Yuezhi Zhao was one of more than 100 SFU-related authors feted by SFU Library in 2012 for his 2011 book Communication and Society: Political Economic and Cultural Analysis (Chuanbo yu shehui: Zhengzhi jingji yu wenhua fenxi) published by Communication University of China Press in Beijing.

[BCBW 2012] "Chinese"