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Spotted on Weibo — Mao and Zhou Playing Angry Birds
Zhou 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...
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Spotted on Weibo: Modern “Warfare” With QQ Messenger
If China Central Television (CCTV) wants to strike fear deep into the hearts of the Pentagon and the Japanese Ministry of Defense, it has to be more careful with footage selection. In its October 15...
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Weibo Rumor Watch: Reports of Anti-Police Riots Erupting in Luzhou
[Warning: This article contains graphic images.] On the cusp of China’s handover of power at its 18th Party Congress, this is the last thing the country’s central government wants or needs. According...
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Spotted on Weibo: Chinese Start-Up’s Kickass Offices Would Make Google Jealous
Photos via Afu Foxconn it is not (although recent photos on TLN partner The Atlantic suggest Foxconn isn’t as shabby as some had thought). Images of the new office of a Chinese start-up have been...
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Spotted on Weibo: Birkin Bag with Chinese Characteristics
As every school child in China knows, the red color in the Chinese flag symbolizes revolution–dyed by the blood of martyrs who made the ultimate sacrifice for the Communist cause, as it is often said....
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Spotted on Weibo: Chinese Leaders Share a Human Moment
This article also appeared on ChinaFile, a Tea Leaf Nation partner site. An active Beijing-based micro-blogger named Dongdong Wang (@東東旺) recently tweeted this image on Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter: At...
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Spotted on China’s Twitter: Chairman Mao, Online and Ready to Chat?
China’s late Chairman Mao Zedong has apparently gotten posthumously web-savvy. On December 2, reporter Pu Baoyi (@朴抱一) posted the following image on Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter. It reads: Yesterday,...
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Chinese Hospital “Warmly Congratulates” Itself on Number of Sick People
From the department of massive PR failures comes this image, tweeted November 30 on Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter, by a user with the handle “soy-sauce-plus-an-egg Ming” (let’s just call him Ming). It’s...
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With a Flair for the Common Touch, China’s New Leaders Give Web Users “Great...
This article also appears on Tea Leaf Nation partner sites ChinaFile and The Atlantic. Glad-handing with the locals. Kissing babies. Eating fast food. These are tried and true ways that American...
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Infographic: A Comparison of China’s and America’s Richest People
This article was produced in collaboration with ChinaFile, a Tea Leaf Nation partner site. CNPolitics, a Chinese-language news website, recently released this infographic examining the differences...
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Spotted on China’s Web: “Breeding Base” for Communist Party Members
The sign reads “Party Member Breeding Base.” (Via Weibo) A user on Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter with the handle @醒来的大鸦 has posted this head-scratcher: A sign reading “Breeding Base for [Communist] Party...
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Spotted on China’s Web: Homeowner Flies U.S. Flag to Protest Demolition
“Foreign forces,” indeed. On the same day that Chinese propaganda authorities issued a warning that widespread online and offline anti-censorship protests were being driven by “foreign forces,” a user...
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Infographic: Chinese Attitudes Toward Their Nation, And the World
This article was produced in collaboration with ChinaFile, a Tea Leaf Nation partner site. Are Chinese citizens happy with the direction their country is taking? Do they believe in a market economy? Do...
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Spotted on China’s Web: Who Really Changed America, Obama or the Smartphone?
On Sina Weibo, China’s major Twitter-like platform, a user with the handle “this is America” (@这里是美国) shared the below image on January 23, two days after U.S. President Barack Obama’s second...
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Where Does Beijing’s Pollution Come From?
In January alone, a stifling and noxious haze twice enveloped the Chinese capital of Beijing, pushing air quality indexes literally off the charts and inciting widespread outrage both on-line and off....
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Interactive Maps of China’s Most–and Least–Polluted Places
Nearly five weeks ago, Beijing experienced its worst day of air quality on record: Levels of PM2.5 — small particulates that can cause lung, cardiovascular and respiratory disease — soared to more than...
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Problems of Place: Do Quotas in China’s College Admissions System Reinforce...
Students in China often take additional evening classes to prepare for the all-important college entrance examination (via Flickr/Aaron.huo) Earlier this month, millions of Chinese students took the...
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China’s Original Social Media: Bathroom Graffiti
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Where Humiliation is Normal — Being LGBT in the Chinese Workplace
Tolerance of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals appears to be rising in Mainland China, at least among the digital generations. A February 2013 poll of users on Sina Weibo,...
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The Mooncake Economy: Inside China’s Most Crooked Confection
Across the country, Chinese are observing the annual harvest festival by giving and receiving mooncakes, pastries whose round shape is meant to evoke the full moon of the autumnal equinox. In recent...
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