Talk:Propaganda in China

A Lead Worth Following

I just read this http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/02/international/asia/02epstein.html :

"Israel Epstein, a journalist, author and propagandist for China whose passion for Communism was fueled in long interviews with Mao in the 1940's and was not dimmed by imprisonment during the Cultural Revolution, died last Thursday at a hospital in Beijing. He was 90.

His death was announced by the official New China News Agency.

Mr. Epstein edited China Today, an English-language Chinese newsmagazine, translated the sayings and writings of Mao and Deng Xiaoping and advised the Chinese government on how to polish its overseas image. He became a Chinese citizen, joined the Communist Party and served on official government and party committees."

Sounded really interesting and lo and behold, here's a potentially great article needing some work. Would like to work on the article, but since it seems like a large task needing a lot of work (borrowing some books from the library) and there is this potential deletion hanging over the article, I will hold off for now. Anyone else thinking about helping out? Looks like there hasn't been much work on it for a few days. Should it be advertised somehow?--DownUnder555 19:37, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

VfD

Survived Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Chinese propaganda.

Songs

I remember a song of end of 1950s or beginning of 1960s with lines, kind of (I may be well off with transcription; I hope it is something recognizable)

"Ghe ming zhen shee hao han"

"Gong chan dang hao"

"She hui zhu yi hao"

It was full of plain propaganda how is everything good during socialism, and communist party leads well. Is it something well known? mikka (t) 29 June 2005 00:18 (UTC)

such a neglected article...

this article seems so relevant but so neglected? amazing. I will try to find some time to add information to it based on some of the things I've been reading recently.--Asdfg12345 21:39, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

Not So much Neglected, as edited to Censor. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.1.159.6 (talk) 03:01, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

Help with research, please..

Am just starting to research this topic a bit during spare time. Any help would be most welcome.

Sources

Sources available on this topic are so diverse, am at a loss where to start. Anyway, if you come across a good source please add below, with a short summary of what the article touches upon:

• The BBC, China's internet 'spin doctors'[1]. A BBC article on China employing "tens of thousands" of paid agents to scour the internet, post comments supporting CCP propaganda, remove/attack information critical of the CCP, etc. A rather interesting article, and could provide info for a "Propaganda on the Internet" sub-section.

• The BBC, China TV faces propaganda charge[2]. BBC article on Chinese intellectuals signing an open letter against CCP's use of state controlled media to "brainwash its audience". The open letter speaks against whitewashing of "serious events like the recent milk contamination scandal", "systematic bias in its news coverage", ...

• Reporters Without Borders, A “Journey to the Heart of Internet censorship” on eve of party congress. A detailed study of how China's internet Censorship system functions.

• Xinhua: the world’s biggest propaganda agency. An in-depth study of the "role of the news agency Xinhua News Agency in the system of propaganda and censorship[in the CCP]" Sources from inside reveal to RSF "how the control imposed by the CCP’s Propaganda Department operates on a daily basis." The article goes on to analyze and expose "the distortion of facts, hatred for its enemies (particularly the United States and Japan) and its support, through the treatment of international news, for the world’s worst regimes." "Hand-picked journalists, who are regularly indoctrinated, produce reports for the Chinese media that give the official point of view and others - classified “internal reference” for the country’s leaders."

• "Living dangerously on the Net" RSF report on Chinese censorship of info on the net, paid agents involved in removal/attack of critical info, etc. Discusses agents paid to engage in "manhunt" for individual users; a bunch of laws which allow "dissemination of information jeopardizing the state" to be punished with a "death penalty".

• Regimenting the Public Mind: The Modernisation of the Propaganda System in the PRC. Dr Annie-Marie Brady, University of Canterbury. "Propaganda work...always been an essential element of the CCP hold on power. The Central Propaganda Department (Zhongyang xuanchuanbu) of the CCP sets guidelines over the Chinese media, film, drama, art, news, literature and education, and disciplines those who break the rules on what can and cannot be presented in these mediums.5 The propaganda system (xuanjiao xitong) remains one of the key groupings of bureaucracies within the Chinese political system."

• Guiding Hand: The Role of the CCP Central Propaganda Department in the Current Era. Anne-Marie Brady, Department of Political Science, University of Canterbury. "The Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has a central, guiding, role over the whole of Chinese society in the current era. The Central Propaganda Department oversees the Propaganda and Education System (xuanjiao xitong) which monitors, instructs and censors all of China’s newspapers and magazines, film, television and radio broadcasting, the Internet, the publishing industry, and all aspects of cultural and information production from the highest to the lowest levels of society. In this paper I outline the structure and role of the Central Propaganda Department and the system of thought control it oversees."

• CHINA’S PROPAGANDA SYSTEM: INSTITUTIONS, PROCESSES AND EFFICACY by David Shambaugh, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs writing in The China Journal. Paper focuses "on the scope, structure and mechanisms of the Chinese propaganda system today."

• China’s Propaganda and Perception Management Efforts, Its Intelligence Activities that Target the United States, and the Resulting Impacts on U.S. National Security. I believe there is enough material/ research available to meet WP:N and it merits a topic of its own ( on CCP propaganda outside China ). But as afirst tsep we could cover this tersely in a subsection of this article.

• MASS MEDIA CONTROL IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA by Ashley Esarey.
• China's New Propaganda Machine By NICHOLAS BEQUELIN From today's Wall Street Journal Asia

Dilip rajeev (talk) 23:28, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

Since when is RSF a reliable source? A bunch of rhetorics froma CIA funded organization can hardly meet WP:RS--PCPP (talk) 12:35, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

• USCC Special Report Sarah Cook May 2017

• The Expansion of Chinese Communist Party Media Influence since 2017 BY Sarah Cook Senior Research Analyst for China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan

• The Chinese Journalist: Mediating Information in the World's Most Populous By Hugo Burgh

• Framing Corruption in the Chinese Government: A Comparison of Frames Between Media, Government, and Netizens MICHELLE CHEN CHRISTINA ZHANG University of Minnesota–Twin Cities, USA

• Media Censorship in China by Beina Xu and Eleanor Albert

• China’s Silent Takeover While America's Elite Slept

• Exiled Chinese Billionaire's Accusations of China (w/ Guo Wengui & Kyle Bass)

• Shelter in Place Shane Smith & Edward Snowden

• [https://gnews.org/193374/ Miles Guo: The CCP’s mouthpiece threatened America and Mr. Bannon] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.1.159.6 (talk) 02:59, 5 May 2020 (UTC)