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 western Xinjiang Uigur Autonomous Region. However, overseas rights groups maintain the outcome was simply the result of an argument over [...]
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 anything but voluntary. But on June 17, Han returned to his 3.8-million-plus followers with these words: “How has Sina Weibo [...]
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 on Hunan Satellite Television, two children swap families for seven days. One child hails from a low-income rural household, the [...]
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 on Hunan Satellite Television, two children swap families for seven days. One child hails from a low-income rural household, the [...]
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 representative) comments from Weibo, China’s Twitter. At a historic moment like this, it’s worth remembering the eyes of the world [...]
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 aunt because of her sexist attitudes—what the Chinese call “valuing the boys and slighting the girls.” Before my oldest aunt [...]
[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 Twitter, which showed black people in Guangzhou city protesting together. My first reaction: This image was from three years ago. [...]
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 reached even the nation’s youth. Sort of. Each year, elementary schools in China select representatives, called “Young Pioneers,” to help [...]
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 reached even the nation’s youth. Sort of. Each year, elementary schools in China select representatives, called “Young Pioneers,” to help [...]
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 contrast between female taikonaut Liu Yang’s ascension to space with the forced abortion of rural resident Feng Jianmei’s seven-month-old fetus. Netizens [...]
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 contrast between female taikonaut Liu Yang’s ascension to space with the forced abortion of rural resident Feng Jianmei’s seven-month-old fetus. Netizens [...]
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 of warning. But there were directed not at the perpetrators, but would be victims. As TLN reported, the tweet showed [...]
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