Media czar: be docile, but profitable
In a speech last week, China’s top propaganda official delivered the Party’s message on media policy, reiterating the need for control.
In a speech last week, China’s top propaganda official delivered the Party’s message on media policy, reiterating the need for control.
The full text of the Party’s “Decision” on cultural reform is released. But even as it affirms creativity, the document is stacked with restrictive language.
Didn’t you know? Everyone at right advanced “cultural soft power” in one rural county. But do the CCP’s cultural policies really herald a new age of creativity?
Today marks the one-hundredth anniversary of the start of the Xinhai Revolution in China, which overthrew the country’s last imperial dynasty. Here’s a quick look at how the anniversary looked in China’s newspapers.
Global media executives meet in Beijing to decide the future of the “international media order” through an ostensibly “non-governmental” institution established by the Chinese state.
English-language coverage of recent changes affecting two major newspapers in Beijing was a muddle. Here’s what you need to know.
On August 26, a Shanghai newspaper editorial drew some sensitive lessons for China from political changes in Libya.
As a new propaganda film glorifies the legacy of the CCP on the occasion of its 90th anniversary, it exposes an unrealized dream that is at the root of festering tensions in China today.
As the loudly trumpeted 90th anniversary of the CCP approaches, the feisty Southern Weekend takes a cool but uncritical look at the recently “red” (hot) idea of the “red song.”
A series of “moderate” editorials has Chinese asking: What’s up with the People’s Daily?