Whatever serious political signals that Xi Jinping’s first trip abroad as China’s new leader may have sent, Chinese Web users have recently focused on someone else: their new First Lady. Everything about Peng Liyuan seems to have fascinated users of Chinese social media, from Ms. Peng’s designed-in-China clothes and handbags to her mannerisms to her [...]
This article also appears on ChinaFile, a Tea Leaf Nation partner site. Beijingers are choking on their air — again. Just seventeen days after Chinese cyberspace erupted with complaints about pollution so bad that it was “beyond index,” denizens of the Chinese capital awoke once again to a city blanketed with smog. Over the past [...]
The debate on China’s one-child policy has gone very public. A recent poll on Sina Weibo, a popular microblogging platform in China, asked the question, “Do you support allowing two children?” And it’s a 1984 Reagan-versus-Mondale style blowout. Out of 30,006 votes cast, 71.7% support abrogating the one-child policy, and only 28.3% want to keep [...]
Life ain’t fair. With the Olympics providing a prime opportunity to stack one country’s fate against another’s, we bring you the stark difference between American and Chinese purchasing power. This graphic, courtesy of “A Storyteller,” has been making the rounds on the Chinese Internet. On Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter, the infographic has been retweeted over [...]
On February 9th, Wuhan Evening News published a story entitled “Young Mother Nurses 6-month Baby Into Cerebral Palsy,” that described a distraught mother who turned to infant formula to cure her child, based on the advice of a local doctor that her breast milk was the culprit behind her baby’s illness. The newspaper article set [...]
The boom and crackle of fireworks has faded into the late night. China has entered the Year of the Dragon, one portending power and change. Charles Xue, known as China’s first angel investor and an avid user of Weibo, China’s Twitter, has shared his reflections with China’s blogosphere under the hashtag “feelings on New Year’s Eve.” [...]
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