Tracking Control

Meta-Propaganda In the Digital Age

Jan 27, 2022 | David Bandurski
As the CCP’s system of domestic propaganda changes to accommodate digital media developments, the story of this transformation is another success story for propagandists to tell.

Going Global

Gaming for the China Story

Jan 25, 2022 | Stella Chen

Tracking Control

Xinhua Chief Takes Charge at the ACJA

Jan 19, 2022 | David Bandurski

Going Global

Short Videos to Tell the China Story

Jan 18, 2022 | Stella Chen

Headlines and Hashtags

Positive Designs

Jan 14, 2022 | David Bandurski

China Newspeak

A Listicle for Cyber Control

Jan 13, 2022 | CMP Staff

Headlines and Hashtags

Remembering Xu Zhuqing

Jan 11, 2022 | Stella Chen

Headlines and Hashtags

Re-brand for Official Cyberspace Magazine

Jan 10, 2022 | Stella Chen

Going Global

Personal Brands for Party Agendas

Jan 7, 2022 | Kevin Schoenmakers

Ideological and Political Education

Dec 17, 2021 | Stella Chen
“Ideological and political education,” or sixiang zhengzhi jiaoyu (思想政治教育), often shortened as sizheng (思政), is a subject taught in high schools and universities in China as part of the country’s Patriotic Education Campaign (爱国主义教育) since the early 1990s. While modules for “civic education” (公民教育) exist in other countries, these focus on the pr…

Party Spirit

Dec 12, 2021 | Stella Chen
“Party spirit,” or dangxing (党性), is a Chinese translation of a Russian term from Marxism-Leninism that has been transliterated as “Partiinost,” and would generally be translated into English as “party-mindedness,” “partisanship” or “partyness.” The term is widely used today in the sphere of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) discourse, where its cor…

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…
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Headlines and Hashtags

Re-brand for Official Cyberspace Magazine

Jan 10, 2022 | Stella Chen
The Cyberspace Administration of China will change the name of its flagship publication this month. Not exactly news to write home about — but nevertheless, something for observers of Chinese internet control and related policies to pay attention to.

Going Global

Personal Brands for Party Agendas

Jan 7, 2022 | Kevin Schoenmakers
In a bid to advance Chinese government narratives more credibly overseas, state media have encouraged more “flexible and personalized” use of the individual accounts of their employees on platforms such as Twitter and Facebook. When are social media accounts personal? And when are they being disi…

Tracking Control

A Long Road to the CCP Congress

Jan 6, 2022 | CMP Staff
Buckle your seatbelts for an extended tour this year through the official discourse of power and succession. 2022 has hardly begun, but for the propaganda ministers of the CCP there can be no doubt that the year’s biggest news story – the Beijing Winter Olympics notwithstanding – will be unfoldin…

China Newspeak

And Then There Were Five

Dec 29, 2021 | David Bandurski
For the past five years the “Four Confidences” formula affirming the strengths of CCP rule has been firmly in place, finally added to the Party Charter in 2017. But the so-called “confidence doctrine” now looks to be upgraded with a fifth addition — “historical confidence.”

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