Tea Leaf Nation

This article also appears in The Atlantic, a Tea Leaf Nation partner site. Last week, china’s “Re-education Through Labor” system returned to the center of public attention. Re-education through labor, or laojiao in shorthand Chinese, has long been a reviled means for police to jail Chinese citizens without due process. In 2011, laojiao was used [...]

The Chinese Communist-Party controlled People’s Daily, a newspaper known for insufferable lockstep propaganda since its 1948 founding, has entered the age of social media. On July 22, the People’s Daily (@人民日报 ) sent its first tweet on Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter, and immediately showed netizens something they had not expected from the staid publication: Candor and [...]