China Mobile Film Projection in Socialist and Post-Socialist China May 8, 2015 0 Written by Tina Mai Chen. The study of propaganda in socialist and post-socialist China generally focuses on the content and aesthetic conventions of specific genres…
Chinese media From Holding up Half of Heaven to Learning How to Flirt May 7, 2015 0 Written by Chris Berry. Amongst the most memorable commercial films on display at the recently concluded Far East Film Festival in Udine, Italy—for all the…
China Minority Dance, Minority Dancers May 6, 2015 0 Written by Emily Wilcox. Most Americans would be hard-pressed to distinguish a waltz from a tango or a salsa from a jitterbug. However, in the…
China The Chinese Government Hops on the WeChat Bandwagon May 6, 2015 0 Written by Zixue Tai and Xiaolong Liu. Like everywhere else, social media is an increasingly pervasive presence in Chinese society. Leading the market are the three…
China Prolonged Calm: The Propaganda of Positive Thinking May 6, 2015 0 Written by David Volodzko. In the Autumn of 1934 the Red Army began its Long March retreat to escape the grip of the Kuomintang. The…
China The enduring themes of Chinese propaganda May 5, 2015 0 Written by Matthew Johnson. Two of the most enduring and seemingly paradoxical features of China’s propaganda state are its staying power and steady decline. In English,…
Internet A New Internet World, A Neo-Authoritarian Model of Internet Governance November 18, 2013 1 Written by Min Jiang. Following the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held in Beijing from November…
International Relations The Mass-Media Logic behind China’s Internet Controls November 11, 2013 2 Written by Florian Schneider. How the Chinese government is applying 20th Century thinking to 21st Century technology. One of the most popular technology myths to…
Internet The Great Fearwall of China November 3, 2013 3 Written by Jonathan Benney. The term “Great Firewall”, intended to convey that China’s Internet is surrounded in its entirety by a border which restricts outside…
Military Chinese Political Warfare in the 21st Century October 21, 2013 0 Written by Russell L.C. Hsiao. One poorly understood element of Chinese military strategy in the 21st Century is political warfare. While many China-military watchers in the…
