Xi Jinping Thought to Be Taught in Universities
The Guardian’s Tom Phillips reports that two Chinese universities have set up departments...
political slogans
All
LatestXi’s Second Term: Name in Charter, No Heir in Sight
Wednesday marked the beginning of Xi Jinping’s second term as China’s top leader, and...
“Xi Jinping Thought” May Be Added to Party Charter
Xi Jinping has now been in charge of the Party and state for five years. While Xi’s presumed...
CCP Constitution Amendment May Signal Xi’s Power
As state media and Party officials kick their adoration of President Xi Jinping into overdrive...
Journalism, Censorship, and the 19th Party Congress
At Deutsche Welle, Sabine Peschel talks to Audrey Jiajia Li, a former TV journalist who has turned...
Video Extols Party Slogans With Rap and Beethoven
Xinhua has released a new animated music video fusing Beethoven with hip-hop in attempt to...
Xi Jinping Unveils the “Four Comprehensives”
Shortly after becoming General Secretary of the CCP in late 2012, Xi Jinping began promoting...
I Love the Chinese Dream; A Coffee, Please, and Cream
Young Chinese at home and abroad may be outspokenly nationalistic, but that nationalism is...
The New Face of Chinese Propaganda
At The New York Times, Murong Xuecun examines a new wave of Chinese propaganda slogans, with...
Hexie Farm (蟹农场): The Chinese Patient
For his latest contribution to the Hexie Farm CDT series, cartoonist Crazy Crab depicts China as a dragon, ailing in a hospital. Three doctors hover around, giving advice, which echoes a line from President Xi Jinping: “We...
Evan Osnos: The High Bar of The New Chinese Dream
In an interview with Asia Society’s Dan Washburn, The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos gives his thoughts on the nature and implications of the “Chinese Dream”, “the first Chinese political slogan that makes...
Xi Jinping’s “Chinese Dream”: Dangers in Opacity
Every head of the post-Mao PRC has risen to power with a personal slogan to characterize their leadership aspirations and establish their position in the ideological heritage of the CCP. Deng Xiaoping began the tradition with...
Catchy Family Planning Slogans
Offbeat China translates many harsh family planning slogans from rural areas, which were collected by Netease. The family planning policy, better known as the one-child policy, has been set as China’s basic state policy since...
Funny Rural Chinese Advertising & Depressing Propaganda
chinaSMACK has compiled and translated advertising posters and political slogans notable “for both their frankness and their humor”: From illegal petitions to promoting the One Child Policy, these slogans are often...
Sun Jiaye (孙嘉业): The Interpretation of the Slogans for China’s National Day
From Hong Kong’s Ming Pao, translated by CDT: China is a country of slogans. And during significant festivals or celebrations, official slogans are often promoted. Last weekend, the general office of the CPC and the State...
Be Forbearing And There Will Be Harmony
A sarcastic look out how Chinese officialdom is going about creating a harmonious society. From the New Observer (新观察) blog (translated by CDT): China Railway No. 11 Group Company reminds you to: Wait a bit and you’ll be...
Modern Chinese History in Words
Eswn has reprinted and translated a list (originally in Xinmin Zhoukan) of political terms and slogans found in the Chinese press at various times from 1949 through today. As Eswn writes: “Given the central role of the press as a propaganda tool in China, this is a measure of shifting political ideologies over time. ” The […]
SUPPORT CDT
CDT EBOOKS
Giving Assistant
Amazon Smile
Anti-censorship Tools
Click on the image to download Firefly for circumvention
