propaganda

From yesterday’s Xinhua, China earmarks 73 mln USD for rural environment protection we read that the Ministry of Environmental Protection is throwing what seems to be a lot of money into the polluted countryside to deal with environmental issues.
The fund would help save 600 villages out of severe environment problems and award 100 others which [...]
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In a 2005 essay by OMA (Office of Metropolitan Architechture) partner Ole Scheeren Made in China, which appeared as the introduction to Architecture and Urbanism July 2005 Special Issue entitled CCTV by OMA, Mr. Scheeren stated:
As the national television station, CCTV has a direct relationship to the State – is information filter and propaganda machine [...]
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Up to 2,000 people attacked the local Communist Party headquarters in Longnan City, Gansu Province (甘肃省, 陇南市), northwest China in protest over a land dispute, according to the HK Standard of November 18, quoting Chinese state media. About 30 people protesting the eviction plans gathered at the party headquarters Monday morning but the crowd swelled to [...]

The following is a translation of an open letter by 49 - or 65 - China scientists *), publicists and politicians in Germany. They refer to an initial open letter written by Chinese dissidents, by German authors et al which is the topic in my post of November 14.
Then follows a link to and a quote from a [...]

Chinese dissidents living in Germany wrote an open letter to Germany’s federal parliament, the Bundestag, on September 13. They complained about Germany’s international radio station Deutsche Welle (Voice of Germany) and its China coverage.
Their criticism targeted the station’s Chinese service and its then deputy department manager Zhang Danhong. Signed by a number of people from [...]

I’ve noticed at least three different waves of local propaganda since we’ve been here. The third one just started in the last few weeks.
During the buildup to the Olympics, the parks and neighbourhoods were saturated with slogans and posters about acting more “civilized” (讲文明). This meant curbing embarrassing common public behaviours [...]
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Don't miss James Fallows' superb story in Atlantic Monthly on China's national communication woes. Fallows gets into all the things that China does to undermine its own attempts to improve its international image. It's a fascinating read for anyone interested China and communication:
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