Earlier this month, millions of Chinese students took the exam for which they had been preparing their entire lives – the National Higher Education Entrance Examination, known colloquially as the gaokao. For some, the process …
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On June 7, during the rush hour in Xiamen – a Southeastern Chinese city known for its artistic scene and beautiful seaside – a sudden fire engulfed a commuter bus, leaving 47 dead and 34 …
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The Tea Leaf Nation team is proud to announce that TLN has been awarded a grant from Harvard Law School. As part of the inaugural class of seed grant recipients from the law school’s Public …
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Phonemica, or xiangyinyuan, is an innovative project that documents China’s myriad dialects and languages. Founders Kellen Parker and Steve Hansen started the open-archive, ethnographic project in 2009. Both worry that the strong presence of the …
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In a world where many children cannot receive a proper education, China appears to be succeeding at ensuring its youth can attain basic literacy. Yet these “flowers of the motherland,” as they are sometimes called, …
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The term “hardest job-hunting season in history” has become a buzzword in China recently. According to China’s Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, 6.99 million students will be graduating institutions of higher education this …
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Almost half of all Chinese report feeling “more anxiety,” now than they did five years ago. What, exactly, is driving these concerns, or increasing reports of these concerns? Avid followers of China-related news might immediately …
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An audience of some 50,000 followers on Sina Weibo, a Chinese microblogging platform, has helped Zhang Jing, 37, to cope with a huge marital stress: for two years, her husband has sat on death row, …
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A rare protest in Beijing involving hundreds of people was documented by photos posted on China’s social media (scroll down to see photos). The cause of the protest was the death of a 22-year old …
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Rat meat + gelatin + red food coloring + nitrates = lamb. Have you tried it yet? “This is what a ‘complete’ sheep looks like,” reads a caption under the photoshopped image of a sheep …
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Is this another sign of the coming of the “China Century?” The Schwarzman Scholars Program, backed by Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman and launched at Tsinghua University in Beijing on April 21, might have the potential …
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On April 16, 2013, while the attention of the world and the U.S. media was gripped by the Boston Marathon bombings, the Chinese news outlets and social media were captured by horrors of another kind: …
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