This book revisits the central issue of how propaganda was understood within China's Communist Party system. The contributions to this volume capture the sweep of propaganda and its systematic continuities and discontinuities from the perspective of policymakers, bureaucratic functionaries, and artists.

James Farley completed his PhD at the University of Kent in 2016. In 2016 he organized an international conference on 'China's Propaganda System: Legacies and Enduring Themes' and his monograph, Model Workers in China, 1949-1965 (2019), was published by Routledge. He is currently a post doctoral researcher at Universität Hamburg, Germany.

Matthew D. Johnson is an independent research consultant and analyst. He pre­viously held academic appointments at the University of Oxford and Grinnell College, and as Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Taylor's University, Malaysia. His books include Maoism at the Grassroots: Everyday Life in China's Era of High Socialism (joint editor, 2015). He is also a director of the PRC History Group (prchistory.org).

Introduction; Part I: Historical Perspectives; 1. Propaganda: A Historical Perspective; 2. China's Directed Public Sphere: Historical Perspectives on Mao's Propaganda State; Part II: Icons and Imagery; 3. Liu Hulan - 'A Great Life, a Glorious Death': Martyrdom Across the Media; 4. Creating the Subtle Image of the 'Compatriot' ¿¿ - The People of Taiwan and Hong Kong in Chinese Propaganda Posters of the Mao Era (1949-1976); 5. Anatomy of an Emulation Campaign: "Study from Comrade Wang Guofu"; Part III: Reception and Affect; 6. Developing Patriotic Anti-Americanism: Chinese Propaganda and the Resist America, Aid Korea Campaign, 1949-53; 7. One More Time, with Feeling: Revolutionary Repetition and the Cultural Revolution Red Guard Rally Documentaries, 1966-67; Part IV: Transitions; 8. Breaking with the Past: Party Propaganda and State Crimes; 9. From Text(s) to Image(s): Maoist-Era Texts and their Influences on Six Oil Paintings (1957-79); Part V: Legacies; 10. Propaganda and Security from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping: Struggling to Defend China's Socialist System; 11. Whose China Dream is it Anyway: Temporalities of 'Ethnicity' in Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang; 12. China as 'Third Pole' Culture: Between Theorizing and Thought Work; Selected Bibliography