The Selling of a Centennial, 2021 : What the Chinese Communist Party鈥檚 Propaganda Reveals About the CCP
The Chinese Communist Party was founded in July 1921 as a small, revolutionary group that hoped to impose a foreign ideology鈥擬arxism-Leninism鈥攐n a vast, weak, poor agrarian nation. In July 2021, the CCP hopes to use its 100th anniversary to convince China, and the world, that it is the only organization qualified to lead a powerful, wealthy, ambitious superpower. How Xi Jinping and his propaganda ministries tell the story of the past hundred years, and how that experience be understood, speaks volumes about the CCP鈥檚 goals and values as it looks to its future.
Please join three of the world鈥檚 leading scholars of Chinese propaganda and media鈥攁ll of whom have recently conducted research as 浪花直播 Fellows鈥攆or a detailed analysis of how the CCP sees, and sells, its leadership of China after 100 years.
Speakers
Professor, University of Canterbury and Executive Editor of The Polar Journal
Associate Professor of Media Studies, University of Virginia and Senior Faculty Fellow, Miller Center for Public Affairs.
Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Georgia State University
Moderator
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