Tea Leaf Nation

Mark Zuckerberg, eat your heart out.  12306.cn may not sound like the most alluring, or easy to remember, website, but starting on January fifth of this year its average daily page views have exceeded 1 billion, making it one of the world’s most trafficked sites.  No, it’s not the next Facebook or Google.  It’s the [...]

The narrative behind some of the world’s most coveted consumer electronics has turned even grimmer. On January 2, over 150 workers in the city of Wuhan, Hubei province, threatened to jump en masse from a factory roof, alleging that the manufacturer reneged on promised pay. It took the intermediation of the city mayor, backed by a [...]

China’s class divide continues to rile the masses.  Netizens have rushed to condemn a young mother who called a young laborer “dirty” after he offered her his seat on a public bus in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province. As of this post, this incident had garnered almost 1.3 million  comments on Weibo, China’s Twitter, and was the [...]