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World of Weibo

The stories taking China’s internet by storm

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“Hello, beautiful”

Is Xi Jinping trying to appeal to the masses?
Aug 2, 2013 (WiC 204)

While much of the world was buzzing about the debut of the royal baby George, a completely different topic was going viral in China: on Tuesday, President Xi Jinping was overheard by reporters calling a young woman in Wuhan ...

The violent pensioner

Why a pensioner set fire to a bus
Jun 14, 2013 (WiC 197)

“Promptly delete harmful contents that are speculative, provocative or accusatory in nature. Every malicious or sensationalising weibo account must be closed without exception.” These were the instructions issued by the State Council ...

Li Wenrong
May 31, 2013 (WiC 195)

“Hello netizens of Spring City! I am Kunming’s mayor Li Wenrong and today I opened a Sina microblog.” It was a cheery opening for the mayor’s debut on weibo on May 17, although there was some suspicion that it might not really be Li ...

Hainan high jinks

Guo Meimei grabbed headlines again
May 17, 2013 (WiC 193)

Back in issue 151, WiC talked about some of the image problems facing sports car owners in China. But one of the country’s most exclusive car clubs did little to help matters last month after a ridiculous spat on weibo, China’s ...

Study Xi’s Fan Group

Mysterious weibo on new Chinese leader
Mar 15, 2013 (WiC 185)

Move over, Wen Baobao (a nickname for China’s retiring premier Wen Jiabao). Xi Dada (which means ‘uncle’ in Shaanxi dialect) is now the most popular figure on Chinese weibo. Back in November, a mysterious microblog appeared on Sina Weibo ...

PLA general endorses weibo

General Luo Yuan
Mar 8, 2013 (WiC 184)

Major General Luo Yuan is the vice-secretary of the China Association for Military Science. He’s also known as something of a nationalist. In the current dispute with Japan over contested islands in the East China Sea, the army officer has been ...

Not a fan of Deng Yaping

Lee Kai-fu
Mar 1, 2013 (WiC 183)

Lee Kai-fu, one of China’s most popular bloggers, grabbed headlines again. Last week, the former head of Google China, who has over 30 million followers on Sina Weibo, discovered that he was locked out of his personal weibo account. That was ...

Pyongyang calling?

North Korea's social media moment
Mar 16, 2012 (WiC 142)

On March 6, the North Korean government (or someone posing as a representative of Pyongyang) opened an ostensibly official account on Sina Weibo. Called Today Korea, the microblog said it would “Get all the news about North Korea. If anyone ...

Two promotional clips from Peking University and Yale University were among the most talked-about topics online
Mar 2, 2012 (WiC 140)

Two promotional clips from Peking University (called Beida in Chinese) and Yale University were among the most talked-about topics online in recent weeks. Even though both videos were made several years ago, they have attracted nearly 10,000 ...

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