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With Bo Purged, Netizens Call For Fuller Reckoning of the Past

By Vincent Capone on September 29, 2012

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The widely-publicized Party expulsion of Bo Xilai has not just made China’s netizens angry; it’s made them tired. Commenters have called for a final reckoning with the awful legacy of Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution in …

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With Bo Xilai’s Ouster Official, Chinese Netizens Ask What (Really) Happened

By Liz Carter and David Wertime on September 29, 2012

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The purge is on. Bo Xilai, a former Chinese power-broker whose family’s rise was torpedoed by a weakness for bribery, backstabbing, and killing people, is now out—or as the Chinese might say, “ao te” (奥特)–of …

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How China’s “Reincarnation Party” Takes Aim at Online Censors

By Liz Carter on September 28, 2012

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We often refer to Sina Weibo as “China’s Twitter” here on Tea Leaf Nation, but the analogy is not a perfect one. Weibo has many innovative features that Twitter lacks, and offers even more premium …

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Spotted on Weibo: Everybody’s Doing the Split

By Tea Leaf Nation on September 28, 2012

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Two days ago, a photograph of a girl wearing a white vest and ballet slippers and doing a 45-degree split in her dorm room went viral on the Chinese Internet. It led to what Sina …

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Video: TLN Editor and Author Discuss Diaoyu Dispute on Huff Post Live

By David Wertime on September 27, 2012

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The protestors may have gone home for the time being, but the dispute between China and Japan over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands are far from over. TLN author Helen Gao and editor David Wertime were joined by NYU professor …

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Morbid Humor Abounds in Slaughterhouse Known as the Chinese Stock Market

By Rachel Lu on September 27, 2012

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Q: The chairman of the CSRC (China’s equivalent of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission) and the chairman of a public company in China both fall into a river. You only have one rock, who …

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Chinese Citizens Demand to Know Why One of Web’s Most Frustrating Sites Cost 300 Million RMB to Build

By David Wertime on September 27, 2012

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It’s a digital disaster. With a Chinese travel crunch looming, China’s online ticketing system is quickly turning into a boondoggle of historic proportions. It all started with a holiday. Lunar New Year in China marks …

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Director Reveals Mystery of China’s Film Censorship System on Weibo

By Rachel Lu on September 27, 2012

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“No film is safe, no film investment is safe, no director’s creation is safe [under China's film censorship framework],” said director Lou Ye (@导演娄烨) in a recent interview with Sina, a Chinese Internet portal, that …

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Growing Up a Chinese Patriot, Then Heading West in a Changed World

By Helen Gao on September 26, 2012

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I have hundreds of memories of the ceremony, the earliest of which took place in the playground of my elementary school: A dirt opening ringed with cypresses and gingko trees, a small brick-and-concrete platform, and …

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China’s Online Commenters Greet First Aircraft Carrier With Doubt, Disdain

By David Wertime on September 26, 2012

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China has just taken another step in the direction of becoming a military power. On Tuesday, it put into service its first aircraft carrier, named the “Liaoning” after China’s northeastern Liaoning Province. According to the …

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Protests Roiling, China’s Mainstream Media Showed an Alternate Reality

By Sandra on September 25, 2012

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It’s already entered the annals of China’s brief but rich Internet history: On Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter, posts showing massive anti-Japan protests in China went viral on September 15th and 16th. Out in the real …

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Spotted on Weibo: … Oh, I Get It.

By David Wertime on September 25, 2012

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