Marketing Dictatorship: Propaganda and Thought Work in Contemporary ChinaClick here to hear Anne-Marie Brady's BBC World Service radio documentary titled "The Message from China" China's government is no longer a Stalinist-Maoist dictatorship, yet it does not seem to be moving significantly closer to democracy as it is understood in Western terms. After a period of self-imposed exclusion, Chinese society is in the process of a massive transformation in the name of economic progress and integration into the world economy. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is seeking to maintain its rule over China indefinitely, creating yet another "new" China. Propaganda and thought work play a key role in this strategy. In this important book, noted China scholar Anne-Marie Brady answers some intriguing questions about China's contemporary propaganda system. Why have propaganda and thought work strengthened their hold in China in recent years? How has the CCP government strengthened its power since 1989 when so many analysts predicted otherwise? How does the CCP maintain its monopoly on political power while dismantling the socialist system? How can the government maintain popular support in China when the uniting force of Marxist-Leninist-Maoist ideology is spent and discredited? What has taken the place of communist ideology? Examining propaganda and thought work in the current period offers readers a unique understanding of how the CCP will address real and perceived threats to stability and its continued hold on power. This innovative book is a must-read for everyone interested in China's growing role in the world community. |
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Contents
The Market as a Means and a Justification for Control | 110 |
Appointing Gatekeepers as a Means of Control | 115 |
Rewards as a Means of Control | 116 |
Setting Social Norms as a Means of Control | 117 |
Conclusion | 119 |
Sex Crime Wheels of Law and Song Zuying Managing Information Communication Technology in China | 125 |
How China Manages the Internet | 126 |
The Use of Laws and Regulations to Control the Internet | 128 |
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Regimenting the Public Mind The Methods of Control in the Propaganda System | 93 |
Propaganda Departments Role in Censorship | 94 |
Propaganda Guidelines as a Form of Control | 95 |
State Organizations with a Censorship Role | 104 |
Rule by Law | 109 |
Using Architecture to Control the Internet | 131 |
Norms as a Means to Control the Internet | 133 |
How China Uses the Market to Control the Internet | 135 |
The Internet as a New Locus for Chinas Propaganda and Thought Work | 137 |
Aggressive Use of the Internet by Government Agents | 139 |
Chinas Move to Infotainment | 140 |
Telecommunications as a Propaganda Tool | 142 |
Radios Role in Propaganda | 144 |
Conclusion | 145 |
Combating Hostile Forces Chinas Foreign Propaganda Work since 1989 | 151 |
Enemies All Over the World | 153 |
The Post1989 Foreign Propaganda Administrative System | 156 |
Foreign Propaganda Themes Post1989 | 158 |
Chinas Foreign Propagandists | 159 |
Chinas Foreign Propaganda Media | 166 |
Political PR Public Diplomacy and Spin Doctors | 169 |
Conclusion | 170 |
Models and AntiModels Searching for a New New China | 175 |
Propaganda and Thought Work in the CommunistPostCommunist World since 1989 | 178 |
The West as a Model for China | 180 |
Goodbye to AH That? | 182 |
A New New China | 186 |
Toward a New Paradigm of CCP Rule | 189 |
Rating the Effectiveness of Chinas Modernized Propaganda System | 192 |
Conclusion | 194 |
The Rebirth of the Propaganda State | 199 |
Glossary | 203 |
Selected Bibliography | 209 |
Index | 221 |
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Page 68 - And instead we say that the ideal of public opinion is to align men during the crisis of a problem in such a way as to favor the action of those individuals who may be able to compose the crisis. The power to discern those individuals is the end of the effort to educate public opinion.
Page 93 - Without some form of censorship, propaganda in the strict sense of the word is impossible. In order to conduct a propaganda there must be some barrier between the public and the event.
Page 7 - Peter Kenez, The Birth of the Propaganda State: Soviet Methods of Mass Mobilization, 1917-1929 (Cambridge...
Page 31 - Kenneth Lieberthal, Governing China: From Revolution through Reform (New York: WW Norton, 1995), 122-27. 37. Lieberthal, Governing China, and Yongnian Zheng and Liang Fook Lye, "Political Legitimacy in Reform China: Between Economic Performance and Democratization...
Page 68 - But it is not enough to get out leaflets and bulletins on the mimeograph machines, to place releases in the newspapers, or to fill the air waves with radio talks. Words, sounds, and pictures accomplish little unless they are the tools of a soundly thought-out plan and carefully organized methods. If the plans are well formulated and the proper use is made of them, the ideas conveyed by the words will become part and parcel of the people themselves.
Page 65 - Lasswell of the role of propaganda in (American) democracy was republished in readings "representative of the best work in the field": "Conventions have arisen which favor the ventilation of opinion and the taking of votes. Most of that which formerly could be done by violence and intimidation must now be done by argument and persuasion.
Page 88 - Stuart Ewen, PR!: A Social History of Spin (New York: Basic Books, 1996); and Larry Tye, The Father of Spin: Edward L.
Page 7 - In our country, various parties give suggestions to and criticize one another in order to consolidate the leadership of the Communist party and the dictatorship of the proletariat and to accelerate socialist construction.
Page 192 - ... lousy. He may point to friends ("If Sam, Jack and Harry smoke, cigarettes can't be all that dangerous"). He may conclude that filters trap all the cancer-producing materials. Or he may argue that he would rather live a short and happy life with cigarettes than a long and miserable life without them. The more a person is committed to a course of action, the more resistant he will be to information that threatens that course. Psychologists have reported that the people who are least likely to believe...
Bibliographic information
| Title | Marketing Dictatorship: Propaganda and Thought Work in Contemporary China G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series |
| Author | Anne-Marie Brady |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield, 2008 |
| ISBN | 074254057X, 9780742540576 |
| Length | 231 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Asia / China Political Science / General Political Science / World / General |
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