Introduction: Market-friendly, Scientific, High tech, and Politics-lite: China’s New Approach to Propaganda, Anne-Marie Brady Part1 New Themes: 1. The Beijing Olympics as a Campaign of Mass Distraction, Anne-Marie Brady 2. Talking Up the Market: Economic Propaganda in Contemporary China, Anne-Marie Brady and He Yong 3. State Confucianism, Chineseness, and Tradition in CCP Propaganda, Anne-Marie Brady 4. "Confu-talk" : the use of Confucian concepts in contemporary China’s Foreign Policy, Valerie Niquet 5. Linguistic Engineering in Hu Jintao’s China: The Case of the ‘Maintain Advancedness’ Campaign, Ji Fengyuan Part 2 New Methods of Control: 6. From Control to Management: The CCP’s ‘Reforms of the Cultural Sphere’, Nicolai Volland 7. Sword and Pen: Propaganda in China’s Military Modernization, Wang Juntao and Anne-Marie Brady 8. Debating Prostitution and Propaganda Work in the Chinese Media, Elaine Jeffreys 9. Thought Management and the OC, James To Conclusion: The Velvet Fist in the Velvet Glove: China’s Modernised Approach to Social and Political Control, Anne-Marie Brady
Biography
Anne-Marie Brady is Associate Professor in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
'This book is a substantial addition to Brady’s earlier work (Marketing Dictatorship: Propaganda and Thought Work in Contemporary China, 2008), which was already a substantial contribution to the literature as a whole.' - Josef Gregory Mahoney, East China Normal University; The China Journal (July 2013).
"This volume, edited by Anne-Marie Brady, contains interesting and valuable information obtained from research conducted by specialists on the Chinese partystate’s dissemination of information throughout the Chinese communication system." - Johan Lagerkvist, Chinese Journal of Communication 7:1, 126-128
