Category Archives: Propaganda

“China on the Way”

This 17-minute-long “national image film” features a string of uplifting facts and inspiring pronouncements: “Chinese people have never cherished their cultural heritage more than today, nor felt more its lingering charm, which is why, after so many generations, we are still here.”

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Government push for news media company IPOs

The Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the China Securities Regulatory Commission are actively pushing the listing of ten news websites.

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Cultural Revolution propaganda photos

Propaganda photos from the Cultural Revolution from the collection of Thomas H. Hahn.

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Don’t ask so laowai don’t have to tell

An essay was written by Geremie Barmé, scholar, filmmaker and author of the new book The Forbidden City.

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Hu Jintao is also grandpa

‘Grandpa’ Hu Jintao welcomes children from the earthquake zone to Zhongnanhai.

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More on the 50 cent army

More on China’s ‘fifty cent army’ of online propagandists.

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CCTV imagines a perfect world

Laughable propaganda about press freedoms from CCTV.

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