Spelling Out Human Flesh Search

Sorry I've been absent the past few months. Not only have I been working tirelessly on my M.A. thesis focusing on aspects of Human Flesh Search (particularly it's context with recent Cultural Revolution-memory revivalism on the Chinese Internet), but I also finished up my OLLI course on the Chinese Internet and HFS, and the discussions that came out of that course were particularly insightful in how to present HFS and it's context to a western audience.

As such, I wanted to point out two great articles which seek to bring HFS to a western audience by both defining the term and explaining how HFS is structured and how it functions:

What a “Human Flesh Search” Is, And How It’s Changing China over at Tea Leaf Nation, and a follow-up to this piece delving deeper into some of HFS's mechanics over at 八八吧 :: 88 Bar, which specifically mentions the categories which my research has placed HFS cases into.

Netizen Outrage, Echoes of Mao-Era Struggle

I've been collating and organizing my past and current research making historical connections among Human Flesh Search and the Cultural Revolution in preparation for writing my graduate thesis. As such, I wrote a piece over at Tea Leaf Nation making comparisons between netizens on the Chinese Internet and Red Guards of the Cultural Revolution. These comparisons and the article act as a summary of broad themes that I am researching for my graduate thesis, which will take my undergraduate work and delve deeper into making connections and fleshing out themes in Chinese history that I merely touched upon in the past.

Read the article HERE.

Leaders Brave the Internet (Sort of)

Yesterday I discussed the changing role the internet and web chats have on politicians and leaders, especially in China. Today I revisited the topic on Tea Leaf Nation making some comparisons to President Obama's AMA on Reddit and questioning if this online interaction with citizens is both practical and sincere.

Read the article HERE.

Chinese Netizens: South Koreans "Lucky"

A few days ago I blogged about the South Korean's court decision to rule real-name registration requirements on popular website unconstitutional. After the decision came out, I wrote a piece on Tea Leaf Nation on the subject and the response of Chinese netizens.

Read the article HERE.

Obama v. Romney

Wondering what netizens think of the US presidential election and candidates? My latest article at Tea Leaf Nation examines which candidates netizens on Chinese social media are throwing their support behind.

Read the article HERE.

Parental Bad News

Why are Chinese parents hiding bad news from their children? New article I co-wrote up over at Tea Leaf Nation.

Read the article: HERE.

London Opening Ceremony

Another one of my articles is now up over at Tea Leaf Nation. This is a shorter piece that quickly analyzed what Chinese netizens thought of the London Opening Ceremony in comparison to Beijing's in 2008.

Read the article HERE.

Netizen Anger Over Swimming Allegations

My second article on Tea Leaf Nation focuses on the netizen anger over Ye Shiwen's miraculous race and the doping allegations that immediately followed from a BBC commentator.

Read the article HERE.

Tea Leaf Nation Contribution

I've recently become a contributor at Tea Leaf Nation and my first story was posted this morning, titled Op-Ed: What America’s Troubled Schools Can Learn From the Shanghai Model. Go check it out :)