This article also appears in The Atlantic, a Tea Leaf Nation partner site. Carrie Bradshaw, lead character of HBO’s “Sex and the City,” has landed in China. Admired for her glamor, prowess and Big Apple know-how, Carrie and pals Tiffany’s, Barneys and Gucci commanded a four-page spread in the 2011 inaugural issue of Yue Magazine [...]
In January alone, a stifling and noxious haze twice enveloped the Chinese capital of Beijing, pushing air quality indexes literally off the charts and inciting widespread outrage both on-line and off. Pollution — and the outcry surrounding it — has gotten so severe that, according to the New York Times, Beijing has taken emergency measures which “include temporarily shutting [...]
This article was produced in collaboration with ChinaFile, a Tea Leaf Nation partner site. Are Chinese citizens happy with the direction their country is taking? Do they believe in a market economy? Do they believe that hard work brings success? Each year, the American think tank Pew Research Center asks questions like these to over 300,000 [...]
This article was produced in collaboration with ChinaFile, a Tea Leaf Nation partner site. CNPolitics, a Chinese-language news website, recently released this infographic examining the differences between China and America’s wealthiest individuals as reported by Forbes Magazine. As the site notes, China’s relatively recent economic rise means its wealthy tend to be younger. Perhaps surprisingly for a country where all land legally belongs [...]
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