How much can be said in ten words? The prevalence of Twitter in recent years has honed our powers of summary and truncated our online invective, but the laconic Tweet rarely speaks volumes and has …
Read MoreZhou Enlai: I’m so close to getting all those fat green pigs! Mao Zedong: Aim higher. Use the anger of our proletariat birds to undermine the capitalist superstructure. Deng Xiaoping: Someone get me a chair.
Read More[Note: The following is a Tea Leaf Nation op-ed, and does not necessarily represent the opinions of the editors.] The recent anti-Japan protests in more than 50 cities in China turned out to be not …
Read More“Bombard the headquarters.” “To rebel is justified.” These quotations from China’s late Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong were heralded by Red Guards during the decade’s long and violent Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) in their …
Read MorePhotos of a Mao temple in Mianyang, Sichuan Province were posted to Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter, by Lin Jie (@林洁), chairman of B.A. Consulting, a real estate service group. The temple was built in 2006, but …
Read MoreAt least Tony Hayward would sympathize. During the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill fiasco, the then-British Petroleum CEO made a career-ending blunder when he proclaimed, “I’d like to have my life back.” Now Guangxi Autonomous …
Read MoreThe equivalent of the Eye of Providence on the American dollar bill has been discovered by Chinese netizens on the RMB100 bank note (worth approximately US$16). Right next to the picture of Mao, the Great …
Read MoreHong Kong’s fraught relationship with mainland China is not off to an auspicious start in the Year of the Dragon. On social networking site Tianya.cn and Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter, netizens have spent days throwing …
Read MoreIn a public speech on Constitution Avenue, President Obama has praised the benefits of Chairman Mao’s firm hand in managing China’s domestic politics and foreign relations. Rush Limbaugh should be working up a lather. Only, …
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