People’s Liberation Army Major General Luo Yuan debuted on Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter, just as a true military man should—with a big blitz and an ensuing war-in-words. On February 20, Asahi Shimbun, a major Japanese newspaper, published an article headlined: “What Asahi-readers should know: The Truths of China. PLA Major General says ‘Will Bomb Tokyo’.” [...]
The Chinese Web version of Asahi Shimbun, one of Japan’s largest newspapers, posted the following image on Sina Weibo, China’s most active microblogging platform: The screenshots shows two remarkably similar posts, the top from Sina’s Weibo platform, which has about 400 million users, the lower from Internet giant Tencent’s own Weibo platform, which, according to [...]
The Royal Academy of Sciences has announced that Chinese author Guan Moye, who uses the pen name Mo Yan (莫言, which literally means “don’t speak”), has won the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature. Chinese media–mainstream and otherwise–have been saturated with the news since the October 11 announcement. On Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter, the country’s intelligentsia [...]
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