This article also appears on ChinaFile, a Tea Leaf Nation partner site. Is Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter, turning into a new war zone? Dai Xu, a colonel in the Chinese Air Force and military strategist, thinks so. “A month ago, a pseudo-Japanese devil [derogatory term for pro-Japan Chinese] at Shanghai’s Fudan University besieged me and [...]
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’.” [...]
“I am afraid when the phone rings, afraid of seeing people, and afraid of hearing the door bell. Why? Because I can neither stand nor sit; can’t say yes or no; can’t speak the truth nor tell lies. It’s hard to say anything.“ These words are not from dissidents, but Lin Zulian (commonly referred to [...]
In June, around 9 million students took China’s college entrance exam, also known as the “gao kao.” Over the past week, most of them have been anxiously finding out about the results that could have life-changing implications. But behind the exam-related angst is an important trend: The number of gao kao participants have been shrinking [...]
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