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The Histrionics of Cultural Promotion

Dec 1, 2021 | David Bandurski
Xi Jinping has stressed the urgency of “cultural confidence,” “cultural security” and the “building of a cultural power.” But when culture becomes a matter of political urgency – more about apparatchiks than about artists — what are the real implications for culture as a creative enterprise? CMP translates a recent essay on cultural policy by former culture minister Wang Meng.

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Don’t Flaunt It

Nov 25, 2021 | Stella Chen

Tracking Control

Searching for Peng Shuai

Nov 23, 2021 | David Bandurski

Tracking Control

Civilizing Cyberspace

Nov 19, 2021 | David Bandurski

China Newspeak

Buzzwords at the Biden-Xi Talks

Nov 16, 2021 | CMP Staff

Tracking Control

Visas and Vitriol

Nov 16, 2021 | CMP Staff

Headlines and Hashtags

Remembering Zuo Fang

Nov 15, 2021 | David Bandurski

Tracking Control

Law Education Plan Stresses Xi Thought

Nov 13, 2021 | CMP Staff

China Newspeak

Unpacking the 6th Plenum Communique

Nov 12, 2021 | David Bandurski

Whole-Process Democracy

Nov 23, 2021 | Stella Chen
“Whole-process people’s democracy,” or quanguocheng minzhu (全过程民主), sometimes also referred to as simply “whole-process democracy,” is a term first raised by president Xi in 2019 during a consultation session on a draft law at the Gubei Civic Center in Shanghai’s Changning District. “We are following a path of socialist political development wit…

Chaoyang Masses

Nov 1, 2021 | Stella Chen
The term “Chaoyang Masses,” or chaoyang qunzhong (朝阳群众), is used by Chinese media, local police and internet users to refer to Beijing’s community network of public informants, essentially groups of neighborhood volunteers empowered to monitor their areas for illegal activities as well as breaches of moral and even political norms. While the Cha…

Public Diplomacy

Oct 12, 2021 | David Bandurski
From its modern origins in the 1960s, the notion of “public diplomacy”, which broadly involves the cultivation by governments of public opinion in other countries and intercultural communications, was meant to distinguish government-led international public relations efforts from the distasteful notion of propaganda. The trend in China in the re…
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Law Education Plan Stresses Xi Thought

Nov 13, 2021 | CMP Staff
In the latest policy directed at the control of the ideas of Chinese youth, a new five-year education plan on “rule of law” stresses adherence to the leadership of Xi Jinping and to the public opinion objectives of the Chinese Communist Party.

China Newspeak

Unpacking the 6th Plenum Communique

Nov 12, 2021 | David Bandurski
The Communique emerging from this week’s 6th Plenum is just an appetizer offering a taste of the heftier historical resolution to be expected in coming days. But the signals are already clear when it comes the power and legacy of Xi Jinping.

China Newspeak

“Hostile Forces” in the Digital Age

Nov 11, 2021 | Stella Chen
In the era of digital social media, when online flag-wavers can crowd-source their activities and self-publish their accusations, the discourse of foreign interference has become a regular feature of online attacks in Chinese cyberspace, with a wide range of groups and individuals denounced as tr…

China Newspeak

Deciding History, Sealing the Future

Nov 8, 2021 | David Bandurski
At the 6th Plenum, opening today in Beijing, the Chinese Communist Party will pass its third resolution on history. But all of the verbiage in the important document to be released this week will boil down to a simple political fact: Xi Jinping will lead the Party for years to come.

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