It’s been a fascinating year in Chinese cyberspace. Chinese Internet users now number about 538 million, with hundreds of millions of those generating over 100 million posts per day on Sina Weibo, China’s most vibrant micro-blogging platform. No wonder: With once-in-a-generation political upheavals and a steady stream of scandalous, salacious, and sentimental stories, there has been [...]
[Note: The following is a Tea Leaf Nation op-ed, and does not necessarily represent the opinions of the editors.] The recent NIMBY movement against a PX chemical plant in the Chinese city of Ningbo ultimately followed the same trajectory as did protests in Shifang and Qidong in July, 2012. After a tense confrontation between citizens and [...]
We’ve seen this movie before, and so has the rest of China. On Saturday, October 27, Tea Leaf Nation reported that protests were heating up in the coastal city of Ningbo as locals expressed opposition to the construction of a chemical refining project they feared would pollute their hometown environment. On that same day, prominent [...]
Liu Bo is famous. One of many police officers assigned to quash recent protests over a planned molybdenum copper plant in Shifang (什邡), Sichuan province, Bo was famously pictured with a riot shield strapped to his forearm, baton raised, charging at the backs of a small crowd. His bull rush was captured on a mobile [...]
Recent demonstrations in Shifang, Sichuan over a planned molybdenum copper plant and Qidong, Jiangsu over a proposed wastewater pipeline have taught us about the violent side of social unrest in China. In Shifang, the protest turned into a bloody fight between police and protestors which resulted in serious injuries to both sides. In Qidong, protestors broke into [...]
Remember the Pepper-Spray Cop meme? Now, China’s got its own version. Police and protesters faced off in Shifang earlier this week, and pictures taken by locals caught many of the police in the act of beating people. One police officer in particular has become the subject of a “human flesh search”–the Chinese term for a [...]
Remember the Pepper-Spray Cop meme? Now, China’s got its own version. Police and protesters faced off in Shifang earlier this week, and pictures taken by locals caught many of the police in the act of beating people. One police officer in particular has become the subject of a “human flesh search”–the Chinese term for a [...]
As China’s youth surged forward to protest the plan to build a molybdenum copper plant in Shifang, Sichuan Province, famous Chinese blogger and youth leader Han Han has weighed in. Although Han has previously expressed public doubts both about online protesters and the future of China, Han struck a more optimistic tone in a July 4 [...]
As China’s youth surged forward to protest the plan to build a molybdenum copper plant in Shifang, Sichuan Province, famous Chinese blogger and youth leader Han Han has weighed in. Although Han has previously expressed public doubts both about online protesters and the future of China, Han struck a more optimistic tone in a July 4 [...]
[Warning: Some images below are graphic.] A NIMBY protest in the small city of Shifang in Sichuan Province against a planned molybdenum copper plant turned bloody when the government mobilized riot police to confront protesters. Photos taken at the scene of the protest were posted on various Chinese social media sites, including Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter. These [...]
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