Tea Leaf Nation

The below are translated excerpts from a recent blog entry (Chinese) by China’s most famous young writer, Han Han.  Winds of the Pacific  Taipei stood before me like a labyrinth, just like any other city to any other traveler. My companion needed a new pair of eyeglasses, so we walked into a shop near National Taiwan University. [...]

The Chinese blogosphere is abuzz this Christmas season. Anyone who is anyone has offered their two cents on the fierce debate started by Han Han’s blog entry “On Revolution.” The article, which seems to question the Chinese masses’ “fitness for democracy,” caused an uproar in the blogosphere among those with liberal leanings and earned approving mentions [...]

Han Han, the provocative blogger cum novelist cum race car driver cum high school dropout, has done it again. Only this time, he has drawn heavy fire from some of China’s liberal intellectuals with his most recent blog entries “On Revolution” and “On Democracy.” The long, rambling “On Revolution” offers a rather pessimistic view of [...]