Tea Leaf Nation

We can’t get enough of Valentine’s Day here at Tea Leaf Nation. “Share your Valentine’s Day gift” is one of the hottest trending topics on Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter, and that allows us to peek into netizen’s microblogs to bring you some of the sweetest and funniest gifts exchanged on V-day in China. @头条博客 reports that in [...]

Valentine’s Day has come to an end in China. By all accounts, it’s not an easy place to find love. In the last two months, Tea Leaf Nation has told the story of a woman who almost killed herself after her husband cheated on her, detailed the romantic travails of Chinese men who make (gasp!) [...]

Cupid would never make the grade at Pingdingshan City’s Experimental Middle School in Henan province. @丁灏轩 recently started an uproar on Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter, when he claimed to be a student at the school (literally, a “high middle school,” usually having the equivalents of both junior high and high school in the U.S.) and [...]

Mothers, lock up your daughters! Or maybe that’s a job best left to a police force that netizens have described as “handsome” and “dreamy.” On February 6, with Valentine’s Day around the corner, Chengdu’s Wuhou district police station released a series of posters on Weibo, China’s Twitter, profiling the single men on their rescue squad, [...]

China’s netizens were heartbroken when they found out that the über-popular foreign beauty Siri, the Apple of the world’s eye, doesn’t speak Chinese (yet). But fear not; love-starved techies in China have found a girl next door for their amorous attention. The 10086 SMS customer service hotline provided by China Mobile (no, it’s not a 1-900 [...]