Tea Leaf Nation
List of Tea Leaf Nation articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 China’s Secret Weapon on Disputed Island: Beer and Badminton
How non-military amenities like tea shops, ATMs, and indoor plumbing could strengthen Beijing's claims in the South China Sea.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How China Won the War Against Western Media
The one-two punch of censorship plus propaganda has discredited Western journalism in the eyes of many Chinese.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 China’s Coming Ideological Wars
In the reform era, economic growth reigned supreme. But now, a revival of competing beliefs has polarized Chinese society.
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Syrian internally displaced people walk in the Atme camp, along the Turkish border in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib, on March 19, 2013. The conflict in Syria between rebel forces and pro-government troops has killed at least 70,000 people, and forced more than one million Syrians to seek refuge abroad. AFP PHOTO/BULENT KILIC (Photo credit should read BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images) Why China Isn’t Hosting Syrian Refugees
The economy of the world’s most populous country would ultimately benefit from an influx of refugees, but the government’s reluctance has nothing to do with economics.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Dark Side of Hong Kong’s Prosperity
The city's hundreds of thousands of domestic helpers have few protections and often endure brutal treatment.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Looming Crisis for China’s Legal System
Talented judges and lawyers are leaving the profession, as ideology continues to trump the rule of law.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 China’s Africa Dream Isn’t Dead
Despite falling investment in the continent, Chinese entrepreneurs, investors, and wanderers are digging in.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Chinese Village Modernization Left Behind
Mud Village, ill-served by economic reforms and embittered by official corruption, would just as soon turn back the clock.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 New Video Celebrates Chinese Missiles With Old-School Communist Pomp
The People’s Liberation Army has a new Rocket Force, and they want you to know that it’s glorious.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘We’re No Compatriots of Yours’
Why has mainland Chinese aid to post-quake Taiwan gone over like a lead balloon, while Japanese assistance is warmly welcomed?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Home for the Holidays, Chinese Hipsters Post Peasant Selfies
For stylish youth in China’s growing cities, the lunar new year means a return to family, village, and really tacky pants.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 China Celebrates Lunar New Year With 540 Disco Robots and 29 Drones
China has seen its glorious future, and it is high tech and flawlessly choreographed.
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BEIJING, CHINA - DECEMBER 18: A Chinese student who is a child of migrants does eye exercises as part of a class at an un-official school on December 18, 2015 in Beijing, China. Schools for children of migrants are often unofficial or unrecognized by the state, and were established as a response to the education void created by the decades-long household registration or hukou system. A person's hukou entitles them to social services in their birthplace, meaning millions of Chinese who have migrated from rural areas to cities have been denied rights to urban public services. Reforms to the hukou system come after heavy criticism that it has aggravated a deep social divide in China. The changes could pave the way for up to 70 million children of migrant workers left behind in villages to join their parents in cities. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images) My Secret Life as a Forbidden Second Child in China
The country's draconian birth control policies have lifted, but the millions of children born outside the system live on in the shadows.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Flushing’s Lonely WeChat Sisterhood
China's hottest social networking app has become a way for some divorced Chinese émigrés to find love.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 China’s ‘Jewish People’s Wisdom Network,’ and Other Pyramid Schemes
Millions of Chinese have been swindled by hucksters promising easy money.
