How Uyghur students helped shape China’s 1980s reform era, and a democratic awakening became recast as a security threat.
Communist Propaganda
Tibet Scholars Urged to Use Marxism to Promote Beijing’s Agenda
Beijing gathers Tibet experts to reaffirm that research must serve ideology and shape global narratives.
When “Autonomy” Means Obedience: China’s New “Social Sciences With Chinese Characteristics”
A CCP manifesto reveals how scholarship is being redesigned as an instrument of ideological discipline.
China’s New Front Line Against “Illegal Religion”: Primary School Classrooms
A campaign in Lishui, Zhejiang, shows how the fight against “heterodox teachings” now targets even young pupils.
How Chinese Propaganda Erased Mongolian Identity—and Much More
Soyonbo Borjgin’s PropagandaScope provides an effective new lens on the CCP’s machinery of erasure.
The Luminous Nestorians: When Christianity Was Already Chinese
Political Sinicization is not the only possible or desirable form of Sinicization. A new book on Jingjiao offers an alternative.
When Marx Meets the Dragon Vein: The Return of Feng Shui in the Chinese Communist Party
In Xi’s China, even atheism has good Feng Shui—as long as the state is the only geomancer in town.
China, Three-Self Church Ready to Enforce the New Propaganda Regulations
The government-controlled church rushes to embrace the Party’s new ideological rulebook, proving once again that its deepest creed is political obedience.
Xi Jinping Thought on Demography: How to Lose a Population and Call It Progress
China’s new official doctrine admits the birthrate won’t recover—and rebrands decline as “high-quality development.”
Falun Gong’ “Self-Immolations”: 25 Years Since a “Deepfake” on Tiananmen Square
On January 23, 2001, Chinese propaganda reported that practitioners had set themselves on fire. In fact, the government had staged the entire event.