China Newspeak

Rocketing Praise for Xi

Jun 24, 2022 | CMP Staff
Loyalty signaling at the most senior levels of the CCP fired up further this week with words of ardent love for the general secretary from Zhejiang’s top leader, an aerospace engineer.

China Newspeak

Pen Names for Power Struggles

Jun 23, 2022 | David Bandurski

China Newspeak

Dynamic Zero and Greater Benevolence

Jun 17, 2022 | David Bandurski

China Newspeak

White Smoke, Black Smoke

Jun 16, 2022 | David Bandurski

Headlines and Hashtags

A Steep Drop for China’s Journalists

Jun 14, 2022 | David Bandurski

Tracking Control

Xinhua’s Innovative Party Man

Jun 8, 2022 | David Bandurski

Headlines and Hashtags

Shades of Hostility

Jun 8, 2022 | David Bandurski

China Newspeak

Generational Changes for Disaster Reporting

Jun 6, 2022 | Stella Chen

Tracking Control

A License for Control

Jun 2, 2022 | CMP Staff

Digital Hegemony

Jun 20, 2022 | Stella Chen
“Digital hegemony,” or shuzi baquan (数字霸权), is a term used since early in the Xi era to focus criticism on the United States, with the idea that US dominance of cyber technologies and policies threatens a fair and multipolar world in terms of digital rights and sovereignty — understood strictly through the prerogatives of the powerful state as …

Core

Jun 13, 2022 | Stella Chen
In the context of Chinese political discourse, the word “core,” or hexin (核心), is a term with a history spanning decades that aggrandizes the top leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and emphasizes their singular power and legitimacy. The label is not applied casually by party-state media, and when used in official documents and reports b…

Hostile Forces

Jun 10, 2022 | Stella Chen
Broadly speaking, the term “hostile forces” or didui shili (敌对势力), is used by the Chinese Communist Party to describe perceived external threats to political stability and the integrity of the regime. But it can also point to perceived internal threats – and serve to broad-brush these threats, including dissent, as being somehow extrinsic to the…
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China Newspeak

Generational Changes for Disaster Reporting

Jun 6, 2022 | Stella Chen
In amongst the commemorative articles that came with the 14th anniversary of the Wenchuan earthquake last month, there were a handful looking back on what the disaster meant for China’s journalists. Owing to a combination of factors, the vast majority of those who reported on the quake in 2008 …

Tracking Control

A License for Control

Jun 2, 2022 | CMP Staff
China’s government insists that its press licensing system ensures the professionalism of news coverage and safeguards reporting access for journalists. But press cards are ultimately designed with one key purpose in mind – ensuring news media stay in line.

Tracking Control

New Licensing System for Online Dramas

Jun 1, 2022 | CMP Staff
From today forward, online dramas in China will be issued formal distribution licenses similar to coveted “Dragon Label” appearing in front of box office films. The move, Chinese experts say, will ensure quality . . . and control.

Headlines and Hashtags

Paper Trails in the Digital Age

May 31, 2022 | David Bandurski
If the closure in the past five years of once prosperous publications like the Beijing Times and Shanghai’s Oriental Morning Post signaled the steady decline of commercial print newspapers and magazines in China, the recent shuttering of China Computerworld can be seen as the full stop on a bygon…

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