Why Anxiety Is on the Rise in China
Economic growth has raised living standards throughout the country -- but stress levels have risen too. More »
Liz Carter, an author and translator of Chinese-English language teaching textbooks, and a Tea Leaf Nation contributor, writes on Chinese Internet culture.
Economic growth has raised living standards throughout the country -- but stress levels have risen too. More »
A look at the organization's worsening image problem. More »
Complaints about iPhones may not be so organic, after all. More »
The idea of abolishing the one-child policy, once taboo in China, now has a prominent backer More »
Chinese netizens engage in clever rhetorical tricks in order to talk openly about the New York Times hacking story. [Stringer/Reuters] After the New York Times published an article detailing the four months during which the venerated publication was the subject of hacking attacks traced to China, the news spread on Sina Weibo, China's Twitter. Despite internal censorship measures and the blocking of some sensitive keywords, some users nevertheless… More »
Wealthy Chinese are, on average, 16 years younger than their American counterparts. More »
Web users behind the Great Firewall bantered over topics ranging from competitive singing to government accountability. Sometimes, they were even the same thing. More »
On the weakening of ideology in the PLA More »
Courtesy of one of the country's biggest philanthropists. What is he up to? More »
Many Chinese are memorializing the tragedy today, but, as in past years, some are arguing that the U.S. had it coming. More »
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