Actors
Media and cultural institutions
Articles
45- The 709 Lawyers: How A Legal Profession Was Turned Into A ThreatA case study of how rights lawyers, law firms, families, licenses, and media narratives were absorbed into a security campaign.
- Hong Kong National-Security Cases: How A Free City Was Institutionally Taken OverA case study of how national-security logic reshaped Hong Kong's media, assembly, elections, associations, and courts.
- Uyghur Scholars And Cultural Figures: How Identity Memory Was SecuritizedA case study of how scholarship, folklore, art, and cultural memory were recoded as national-security risk.
- The Central Propaganda Department and Ideological ResponsibilityPropaganda authorities coordinate theory, news, publishing, film, and spiritual-civilization work.
- Chinese-Language Media Supply Chains: How Information Environments Are ReplacedHow content supply, advertising pressure, platform distribution, and self-censorship reshape overseas Chinese-language public space.
- Confucius Institutes: Language Education And Political BoundariesA reading of Confucius Institutes through academic freedom, funding transparency, curriculum control, and sensitive-topic boundaries.
- Covid Heroic Narratives: Reordering Suffering, Sacrifice, and ResponsibilityHeroic narratives can record real labor while moving institutional failure out of public debate.
- The COVID-19 Origins Narrative War: Shifting Responsibility To The United StatesA case study of state media, diplomatic accounts, and conspiracy theories reinforcing one another around COVID-19 origins.
- Cultural-Market Regulation: Publishing, Film, Games, and PerformanceCultural products face content review, licensing, platform distribution, and opinion risk.
- The Boundaries of Cultural Revolution MemoryOfficial narratives condemn turmoil while often limiting inquiry into institutional responsibility, mass organization, and political succession.
- Countering Interference Without Xenophobia: How Democracies Should RespondPrinciples for separating the CCP Party-state from ordinary Chinese people, students, immigrants, and cultural exchange.
- Diaspora Organizations And Manufactured RepresentationHow associations, chambers of commerce, hometown groups, and cultural organizations can manufacture a voice called diaspora consensus.
- Documenting Transnational Repression: Preserving Evidence Without Expanding RiskA safety-first method for victims, community groups, and media documenting threats, harassment, coerced return, and family pressure.
- The Ministry of Education and Political CurriculumCurriculum standards, textbook review, teacher responsibility, and campus activities embed political education across age groups.
- Entertainment Censorship: Governing Celebrities, Fans, and WorksEntertainment governance combines content, celebrity morality, fan organization, capital, and platform popularity.
- The Qinglang Campaign Against Fan CultureFan-culture governance linked minors, capital, platform traffic, celebrity morality, and organized mobilization.
- Forced Disappearance: Why Power Makes A Person Temporarily VanishHow disappearance cuts off lawyers, family, media, and public attention, giving the state time without outside scrutiny.
- Foreign Validation: Trust as Propaganda CapitalHow foreign faces, overseas creators, and external media reduce audience suspicion.
- Historical Nihilism: Securitizing Critical HistoryThe label of historical nihilism turns some historical disputes into questions of political position and regime security.
- Hong Kong National Education: Why Curriculum Became an Institutional ConflictThe controversy joined curriculum, school autonomy, social mobilization, and central identity politics.
- Ideological Governance: Who Decides How History and Reality May Be UnderstoodPropaganda, education, cultural markets, academic management, and platform rules jointly define acceptable interpretation.
- Timeline of Ideological and Memory GovernanceA timeline of propaganda institutions, patriotic education, ideological responsibility, cultural regulation, and digital memory control.
- Managing June Fourth Memory: Commemoration, Search, and Public SpaceControl of June Fourth memory spans archives, education, media, search, commemoration, and physical policing.
- Local Government Due Diligence: Keeping Cooperation From Becoming A Political Entry PointA transparency framework for sister cities, delegations, investment promotion, and cultural events.
- Model Citizens and Positive Energy: Rewriting Social Problems as Moral StoriesModel-citizen narratives move institutional problems into stories of sacrifice, gratitude, and resilience.
- The Official Copy System: How Media And Platforms Repeat One LineHow official copy, reposting, title templates, and platform recommendation turn one line into synchronized speech.
- How The Overseas Chinese Common Voice Is ManufacturedHow a common diaspora voice can be manufactured through organization, synchronized language, media citation, and domestic backflow.
- Overseas Chinese-Language Media And Information EnvironmentsHow content supply, advertising, self-censorship, and issue selection reshape Chinese-language information environments abroad.
- Overseas Influence Map: Propaganda, United Front, PlatformsHow external propaganda, united-front networks, diaspora channels, and platform narratives shape overseas discussion.
- Party-History Institutions: Turning Historical Conclusions Into Political ResourcesParty-history research, archive access, commemorations, and authoritative publications determine which interpretations receive institutional support.
- The Party-School System: Training Cadres in a Common Political LanguageParty schools provide theory education, Party-discipline training, policy interpretation, and cadre networking.
- Patriotic Education: Binding State, Nation, and PartyPatriotic education often places national community, historical memory, and Party leadership in one narrative.
- The Patriotic Education Law: A Unified Legal Framework for Political EducationThe law assigns patriotic-education duties to schools, families, media, cultural venues, and online platforms.
- Platform And Media Transparency: Preventing Capture Of Chinese-Language Information SpaceTransparency rules for Chinese-language platforms, media syndication, account networks, and advertising sponsorship.
- How The Propaganda System Sets The Frame Before Questions FormHow the CCP propaganda system defines interpretation early and then aligns media, platforms, and local authorities.
- The Propaganda Machine: Attention and Emotion ControlA rewritten overview of the CCP propaganda system, from central media to platforms and pseudo-dissent.
- Timeline of Propaganda and Public-Opinion ControlA timeline of propaganda departments, Party media, cultural censorship, internet governance, Qinglang campaigns, and algorithmic distribution.
- Delegations And Counter-Protests: How Welcome Scenes Are OrganizedHow official visits, protest sites, welcome groups, and Chinese-language media form a political scene.
- Rights Lawyers: Why Legal Defense Is Treated As A Political ThreatWhy lawyers who connect cases, evidence, families, media, and institutional responsibility become a target.
- Sister Cities And Local Cooperation As Influence NetworksHow sister cities, local exchange, business visits, and cultural cooperation build long-term influence under a low-politics appearance.
- Student Associations And Campus PressureHow student associations, consular contact, peer pressure, and university risk shape China-related discussion on campus.
- Textbooks and Memory Selection: Compressing History Into Testable ConclusionsTextbooks shape historical understanding through space, causation, character judgment, and examination priorities.
- Tibet: How Cultural Identity Enters National-Security NarrativeHow language, religion, education, reincarnation, exile communities, and cultural memory are placed inside national-unity and security governance.
- Ideological Responsibility in UniversitiesUniversity Party committees, department leaders, faculty evaluation, and event approval shape research and teaching boundaries.
- Whataboutism: From Rhetoric to Production LineHow the “you are worse” tactic becomes a media, diplomatic, platform, and comment-section system.
Cases
9- Hong Kong National-Security Cases: How A Free City Was Institutionally Taken OverA case study of how national-security logic reshaped Hong Kong's media, assembly, elections, associations, and courts.
- Uyghur Scholars And Cultural Figures: How Identity Memory Was SecuritizedA case study of how scholarship, folklore, art, and cultural memory were recoded as national-security risk.
- Covid Heroic Narratives: Reordering Suffering, Sacrifice, and ResponsibilityHeroic narratives can record real labor while moving institutional failure out of public debate.
- The COVID-19 Origins Narrative War: Shifting Responsibility To The United StatesA case study of state media, diplomatic accounts, and conspiracy theories reinforcing one another around COVID-19 origins.
- The Qinglang Campaign Against Fan CultureFan-culture governance linked minors, capital, platform traffic, celebrity morality, and organized mobilization.
- Hong Kong National Education: Why Curriculum Became an Institutional ConflictThe controversy joined curriculum, school autonomy, social mobilization, and central identity politics.
- The Patriotic Education Law: A Unified Legal Framework for Political EducationThe law assigns patriotic-education duties to schools, families, media, cultural venues, and online platforms.
- Delegations And Counter-Protests: How Welcome Scenes Are OrganizedHow official visits, protest sites, welcome groups, and Chinese-language media form a political scene.
- Student Associations And Campus PressureHow student associations, consular contact, peer pressure, and university risk shape China-related discussion on campus.