Whatever serious political signals that Xi Jinping’s first trip abroad as China’s new leader may have sent, Chinese Web users have recently focused on someone else: their new First Lady. Everything about Peng Liyuan seems to have fascinated users of Chinese social media, from Ms. Peng’s designed-in-China clothes and handbags to her mannerisms to her [...]
This article also appears in Tea Leaf Nation Partner sites ChinaFile and The Atlantic. Since China unveiled the new Politburo Standing Committee at the 18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, the country’s Web users have been paying close attention to the new elite group of leaders who will set the country’s agenda for [...]
This article also appears in ChinaFile, a Tea Leaf Nation partner site. With China’s new leadership now set, Chinese Web users have turned their attention to answering the key question: “What’s next?” In concert with the 18th Party Congress, the website of Communist Party-sanctioned Peoples’s Daily hosted an online poll asking Web users about their [...]
If China’s economy collapses, you certainly won’t be able to say that well-known commentator Liu Shengjun (@刘胜军改革) didn’t warn you. On Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter, Liu started an ongoing thread entitled “China’s Miracle is an Illusion.” He wrote: “I was speaking about reform at a gathering of colleagues. Our view: At present, the Chinese economy [...]
Well-known environmentalist and frequent micro-blogger Liu Shengjun’s (@刘胜军改革) plane just touched down in Hong Kong, and he loves the place. He tweeted the following: “Today I arrived in Hong Kong. A free city; a hard-working city; a city with very low taxes; a financial center; a city with no controls on speech and therefore with [...]
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