Families, Intellectuals, and Enemies in the “Red Classic” Remake New Tunnel Warfare

Vanderstaay, Lara

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“…To give an example, 'transmedia storytelling' (Jenkins, 2008) has been used to better target the young generation with anti-Japanese war stories for patriotic edutainment. The 'Red Classic' anti-Japanese war film The Tunnel Warreleased in 1965 -was adapted into a children's animation in 2015 (Vanderstaay, 2017). In 2005, the Chinese Communist Youth League, in cooperation with an online gaming firm, developed an educational online game for young players, titled Anti-Japan War Online (China Daily, 2005).…”

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‘Telling China’s Story Well’ as propaganda campaign slogan: International, domestic and the pandemic

Xu,

Gong

2024

Media, Culture & Society

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The article critically examines ‘Telling China’s Story Well’ (TCSW), a popular propaganda campaign slogan proposed by Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2013. Drawing on theories about storytelling and propaganda and using the COVID-19 as a contextualised example, the paper discusses how the slogan was adapted into ‘Telling China’s Anti-pandemic Story Well’ to mobilise domestic and external propaganda of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) during the pandemic. We argue that TCSW should be understood as a well-crafted political watchword which promotes and commands strategic narratives of doing propaganda. It has the rhetorical power to integrate and reinvigorate domestic and external propaganda, and to facilitate their convergence. Adapting this slogan to mobilise propaganda campaigns of national or global importance and interest demonstrates the CCP’s ambition to harness strategic storytelling to improve the coherence, effectiveness and reputation of its propaganda at home and abroad.

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Section: Storytelling and Propagandamentioning

confidence: 99%