Tea Leaf Nation

The island of Lanyu lies not far off the southeast coast of Taiwan — a small, bucolic island with a population barely exceeding 4,000. Aboriginal Tao people make up nearly 60% of the population, with the rest being mainly Han Chinese. Residents also share the island with a more unwelcome neighbor – the Lanyu Nuclear [...]

Don’t forget to add candles to your shopping list–after all, perpetual darkness lies right about the corner. Tea Leaf Nation reported yesterday on a tongue-in-cheek “doomsday vacation” memo making the rounds on Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter. But some Chinese citizens do not view the upcoming end-of-days predicted by the Mayan calendar as a laughing matter. [...]