This article also appears in The Atlantic, a Tea Leaf Nation partner site. Carrie Bradshaw, lead character of HBO’s “Sex and the City,” has landed in China. Admired for her glamor, prowess and Big Apple know-how, Carrie and pals Tiffany’s, Barneys and Gucci commanded a four-page spread in the 2011 inaugural issue of Yue Magazine [...]
This article also appears on The Atlantic, a Tea Leaf Nation partner site. Cool as glass, a young couple strolls into the Tiffany & Co. attached to Beijing’s four-star Peninsula Hotel, elegantly lit with custom crystal chandeliers. She grips his elbow; he’s aloof. Epitomizing urban affluence in today’s China, this proverbial male drives a slick car, owns a [...]
The early morning in Dengfeng, Henan province in Central China resonates with the thwacking of landed kicks on brick, of wind pants and tennis shoes rubbed flat from unforgiving overuse. Kung Fu students, fueled on rice porridge, are preparing for a full day of training. As scooters pour into nearby streets, a fog peels back [...]
As it smoldered, Yang Dacai (杨达才) smiled. Then-chief of the Shaanxi Safety Supervision Bureau, Yang had been dispatched to the scene of an August bus fire that killed 36 people along a stretch of Yan’an (延安) highway in the central Chinese province. Almost immediately, Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter, trended pictures of the vehicle’s charcoaled, blown-out [...]
A chapter in the strange saga of China’s missing leader-to-be recently drew to a close. After a still-unexplained two-week absence from public view, Xi Jinping, the Heir Apparent due to succeed President Hu Jintao next spring, was photographed on Saturday by Xinhua News Agency on the campus of China Agricultural University in Beijing. Wearing a [...]
Liu Bo is famous. One of many police officers assigned to quash recent protests over a planned molybdenum copper plant in Shifang (什邡), Sichuan province, Bo was famously pictured with a riot shield strapped to his forearm, baton raised, charging at the backs of a small crowd. His bull rush was captured on a mobile [...]
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