Bloomberg and other mainstream Western outlets have already reported that, according to Chinese news sources, six would-be hijackers from Xinjiang province were restrained by passengers ten minutes after take-off in Hotang, a remote city in …
Read MoreProminent Economist Returns to Weibo, Says China Needs New Social Order
He’s back! The outspoken and social media-savvy economist Han Zhiguo (@韩志国) left Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter, on February 21, 2012. At that time, he penned a parting shot (translated here) that made clear his departure was …
Read MoreChina’s Child-Swap Reality Show Highlights Class Divide
American reality shows like “Wife Swap,” where two families swap mothers for a predetermined time, have already found notoriety. But did you know that one Chinese reality show swaps children? On X-change (变形计), a program …
Read MoreChina's Child-Swap Reality Show Highlights Class Divide
American reality shows like “Wife Swap,” where two families swap mothers for a predetermined time, have already found notoriety. But did you know that one Chinese reality show swaps children? On X-change (变形计), a program …
Read MoreChinese Netizens React to U.S. Health Care Ruling
Exhibit #593 that the world is a small place: Chinese netizens have already reacted to the U.S. Supreme Court’s hours-old ruling on the Affordable Care Act. We pulled a small sample of interesting (not necessarily …
Read MoreTranslation: The Sorrow Of Chinese Women
Recent chatter about the status and rights of women on [blogging site] Douban and Weibo [China's Twitter] has prompted me to say something. I think of my maternal grandmother, who’s never getting along with my oldest …
Read More[Bilingual Brew] How Africans Live, and Struggle, in Southern China
[Please enjoy this Tea Leaf Nation bilingual brew. The article is first shown in English, and then in the original Chinese. 亲爱的读者，欢迎享受我们的 “双语茗茶”。英文翻译在上，中文原文在下。] On June 19, I saw the oft-retweeted images on Sina Weibo, China’s …
Read MoreIn China’s Elementary Schools, A Kind of Democracy
Shortly after China’s Party mouthpiece, Global Times, announced that China has long been a type of democracy, Qiao Mengke, an elementary school student from Zhengzhou, Henan province, supplied proof that democratic practice in China has …
Read MoreIn China's Elementary Schools, A Kind of Democracy
Shortly after China’s Party mouthpiece, Global Times, announced that China has long been a type of democracy, Qiao Mengke, an elementary school student from Zhengzhou, Henan province, supplied proof that democratic practice in China has …
Read MoreNetizen Rips China’s Blogosphere: Men Think Women Are Sex Tools, Fear Our Success
With gender suddenly a hot issue in China, anger over sex discrimination has generated what can only be called a world-class smackdown on Chinese social media. China’s media and blogosphere have roiled with the recent …
Read MoreNetizen Rips China's Blogosphere: Men Think Women Are Sex Tools, Fear Our Success
With gender suddenly a hot issue in China, anger over sex discrimination has generated what can only be called a world-class smackdown on Chinese social media. China’s media and blogosphere have roiled with the recent …
Read MoreBBC TV Interviews Editor David Wertime re: Women’s Rights in China
It’s the offensive tweet that ricocheted around the world in just days. After a spate of recent incidents of sexual harassment and indecency, the Shanghai subway system took to Weibo, China’s Twitter, to tweet word …
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