Tea Leaf Nation’s David Wertime spoke on January 22 at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. The topic: “Redefining the Quote: Using the Social Web to Gauge Grassroots Sentiment in China.” Our thanks go to the fellows and staff at Berkman for the kind invitation. Please have a look.
This article also appears in The Atlantic, a Tea Leaf Nation partner site. Chinese Internet users have a new name for themselves: Taxpayers. Over the past year, the word “taxpayer” (nashuiren or nashuizhe) has appeared with increasing frequency on Chinese microblogs and websites, yielding almost 12.5 million results in a search on Sina Weibo, one of [...]
What’s the best camera for capturing images of the recent boycott of Japanese goods in parts of China? Why, a Canon SLR camera, of course. At least so thought one apparent protestor (or so one might think at first glance – more on this later) sporting a vivid ‘Boycott Japanese Goods’ t-shirt complete with [...]
As any self-respecting booklover in Taipei knows, you can immerse yourself in the endless variety of glossy printed books at the Eslite Bookstore on Dunhua South Road. 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Moreover, the flagship store near Taipei 101 stocks toys, stationery, music and lifestyle goods in addition to three floors of [...]
Badminton is on fire, and it’s not from backyard barbecues. Strong reactions and sharp words reverberated on China’s microblogs from the decision by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) to expel eight pairs of female players, including one pair of Chinese players, from the Olympics for deliberately throwing matches. (See here for a summary of why the players tried to lose.) [...]
Badminton is on fire, and it’s not from backyard barbecues. Strong reactions and sharp words reverberated on China’s microblogs from the decision by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) to expel eight pairs of female players, including one pair of Chinese players, from the Olympics for deliberately throwing matches. (See here for a summary of why the players tried to lose.) [...]
The recent devastating floodwaters that hit China’s capital ten days ago may have receded, but thousands of residents who dwell in Beijing’s basement tenements–many migrant workers with few other options in the expensive capital–have been left homeless, their subterranean flats flooded. And it appears that authorities, as well as many netizens, couldn’t seem to care [...]
The recent devastating floodwaters that hit China’s capital ten days ago may have receded, but thousands of residents who dwell in Beijing’s basement tenements–many migrant workers with few other options in the expensive capital–have been left homeless, their subterranean flats flooded. And it appears that authorities, as well as many netizens, couldn’t seem to care [...]
The games of the 30th Olympiad opened with a grand ceremony titled “Isles of Wonder,” created by the English film director Danny Boyle, best known for his work on the films Slumdog Millionaire and 28 Days Later. Boyle acknowledged the sheer extravagance and synchronization of the Beijing 2008 Opening Ceremony, having been quoted as saying, [...]
The games of the 30th Olympiad opened with a grand ceremony titled “Isles of Wonder,” created by the English film director Danny Boyle, best known for his work on the films Slumdog Millionaire and 28 Days Later. Boyle acknowledged the sheer extravagance and synchronization of the Beijing 2008 Opening Ceremony, having been quoted as saying, [...]
An infographic circulating on Chinese social media provides some background information on the planned oceanic wastewater pipeline and a compelling call-to-action for local residents in Qidong, a small city north of Shanghai. Fierce mass protest forced local government to abandon the project on July 28, the second successful mass NIMBY protest in China in a [...]
Protests against a planned pipeline to channel wastewater into the ocean for a Japanese paper manufacturer near a major fishery on China’s east coast (just north of Shanghai) has turned ugly. Thousands of angry protesters in Qidong in China’s Jiangsu Province (江苏省南通市启东) have overturned police cars and threatened to overwhelm a massed police formation. One [...]
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