Tea Leaf Nation

With China’s new slate of top leaders finally unveiled, Web users quickly took to Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter, to share their impressions. While many were confined to speculating about whether new leader Xi Jinping and his colleagues would pursue the road toward reform, others attempted something a bit more, er, scientific: The horoscope. Less than [...]

“On the Internet,” they used to say, “nobody knows if you’re a dog.” In modern Chinese social media, nobody knows if you’re telling the truth either–or if you even exist. What is this image? At top, a China Central Television (CCTV) anchor discusses leukemia sufferer Lu Ruoqing (鲁若晴). Lu Ruoqing, or “little Lu,” is the [...]