Welcome to Tea Time Chat, a real-time discussion between Tea Leaf Nation writers about the issues that matter to them. With graduation day approaching at many universities, we took the opportunity to contributors who have attended Chinese universities to discuss their experiences there. This follows a Chat last week in which we asked Chinese students at elite American universities [...]
Welcome to TLN’s inaugural Tea Time Chat, a real-time discussion between Tea Leaf Nation writers about the issues that matter to them. In this Chat, we have asked Chinese students at elite American universities to explain why they chose to attend U.S. schools over their Chinese counterparts. *** Xiaoying Zhou is a student at Yale [...]
Freedom of speech has always been a sensitive topic in China. But when a prominent commentator calls for the right to free speech in one of the most famous (and state-controlled) universities in China, it raises the stakes yet further. On November 18, fresh off of a forced blogging hiatus coinciding with China’s leadership handover [...]
The debate on China’s one-child policy has gone very public. A recent poll on Sina Weibo, a popular microblogging platform in China, asked the question, “Do you support allowing two children?” And it’s a 1984 Reagan-versus-Mondale style blowout. Out of 30,006 votes cast, 71.7% support abrogating the one-child policy, and only 28.3% want to keep [...]
It’s a story of love, betrayal, and the very real danger of stereotypes. While a senior at Peking University in 1998, a young woman named Ma Nan (马楠) gained widespread notoriety within China as one of seven students to pepper visiting U.S. President Bill Clinton with sharp questions after his speech at the ultra-prestigious school, [...]
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