What did China search for in 2012? It wasn’t the hotly disputed Diaoyu Islands or the widely-watched London Olympics. On Baidu.com, China’s homegrown search engine commanding about 83 percent of the Chinese search market, the most popular searches focus on stories discovered and spread by Internet denizens themselves. Chinese web users were not only passive [...]
The purge is on. Bo Xilai, a former Chinese power-broker whose family’s rise was torpedoed by a weakness for bribery, backstabbing, and killing people, is now out—or as the Chinese might say, “ao te” (奥特)–of China’s Communist Party. On China’s Weibo platforms, the country’s major online gathering places for speech and debate, the Bo-related comments [...]
Gu Kailai (谷开来), the wife of former Chongqing mayor Bo Xilai (薄熙来), has been accused and convicted earlier this week of homicide against British national Neil Heywood. Gu received a two year commuted death sentence, which means a death sentenced with a delayed execution. The accusations against Gu Kailai can be read in a previous [...]
Season 2 of China’s hottest political drama in more than a decade formally began with the announcement of the murder indictment of Gu Kailai and an assistant for poisoning a Brit, Neil Heywood. If you missed the sensational Season 1, you can catch Tea Leaf Nation’s coverage here and here, and our profiles of Gu’s [...]
Season 2 of China’s hottest political drama in more than a decade formally began with the announcement of the murder indictment of Gu Kailai and an assistant for poisoning a Brit, Neil Heywood. If you missed the sensational Season 1, you can catch Tea Leaf Nation’s coverage here and here, and our profiles of Gu’s [...]
On a high-speed train in the Orient, a murder has taken place under cover of night. On April 11, the public awoke to find that the political career of Bo Xilai, China’s “only celebrity politician,” had finally died. The news did not come as a surprise; Bo’s career suffered a brutal stabbing a month ago and [...]
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