Tea Leaf Nation
List of Tea Leaf Nation articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Hazed and Confused
Meme watch: Citizens gird up as China endures severe smog.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Silver Linings Failbook
Chinese people do not think a state media article about "five surprising benefits" to deadly pollution is funny.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Patriot Flacked
Why a nationalist screed warning of Western encroachment has just gone viral in China.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Vanity Fail
Look past their funky threads and outlandish hairdos. China's alienated young migrants are here to stay.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Meet China’s Jack Kerouac
Adventure traveler Zhang Xinyu has found fame online, inspiring a growing number of Chinese "wage slaves" to hit the road.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 China’s Favorite Villainess
Why Chinese TV viewers can't get enough of a fictitious, Qing-era concubine.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘The Renminbi Is Failing the Chinese People’
Now even Chinese people -- not just U.S. congressmen -- are hating on China's currency.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Bo Xilai in Chains, Spurned Mistresses, and the Communist Party as a Sex Wolf
Six images China's censors don't want you to see.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Benedict Cumberbatch Is a Gay Erotic God in China
Why is the Chinese Internet obsessed with writing gay Sherlock Holmes fanfiction?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 That Time a Buddhist Nun Walked into Beijing’s Futuristic Sex Shop
The market for Chinese adult toys is coming out of the shadows.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Chinese Women Defend ‘The Vagina Monologues’
And the response has been less than enlightened.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Crying Lone Wolf
After explosions in a provincial capital, Chinese debate whether anti-government violence is acceptable.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 All in the Family
How a Chinese local government forced a teacher to help evict her parents.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Speak, Memory
Is China finally coming to terms -- on television, the Internet, and in person -- with its horrific past?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Ghost in the Machine
How Chinese netizens are mocking a recent spate of televised confessions.