Tea Leaf Nation
List of Tea Leaf Nation articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 China’s Most Rotten: A Rogues’ Gallery
One of 2014's naughtiest cadres amassed so much cash, it broke police counting machines.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 This Culture Is Not Yet Rated
Chinese think they know why South Korea has a flourishing TV and film industry, and their country doesn't.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘Where’s Our Unity March?’ China Wants to Know
Social media users ask why the West wept for Paris, but not for Kunming, also the site of a deadly attack.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 China’s Anti-Corruption Campaign Ensnares Tens of Thousands More
Over 100,000 cadres have now been disciplined as part of President Xi Jinping's anti-graft drive.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 China’s New, Cool Thing: Getting Priced Out of the Housing Market
That's state media's spin, and it's backfiring badly.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Second, Painful Aftermath to Shanghai New Year Stampede
Reaction to the deadly incident has exposed divisions between native city dwellers and urban migrants.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Do Chinese Care About ‘American Decline’? In 2014, They Did Only Twice
Exceptions prove the rule that China is more interested in its own rise than anything else.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 It’s Official: The Man Who Ruled China Has All But Vanished
Statistics show Hu Jintao receding from public view, almost overnight.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 New Year’s Surprise: Jailed Chinese Pol Bo Xilai ‘Physically Okay’
A social media update by a once-estranged son was soon censored.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 What Will Happen to Uber in China?
The car-sharing app faces an uncertain landscape filled with well-funded competitors.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Coming to Chinese Headlines in 2015
From a click-bait Communist Party to a Chinese Marshall Plan, here are six major stories that flew under the radar in 2014, but won't next year.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Chinese View of the World’s Most Important Relationship
Forget all the doom and gloom; 2014 was not bad to Sino-U.S. ties.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Chinese Web Users Vent Outrage at Gmail Block
As the country’s Great Firewall inches higher, some call for it to be razed.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 In Hong Kong, Anger Waits in the Wings
A vocal minority of pro-democracy protesters are advocating what they call "forceful resistance" against authority.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Netflix’s ‘Marco Polo’ Is Cross-Cultural Clunker
Chinese and Mongolian viewers feel the way Egyptians might while watching 'The Mummy.'
