Marketing Dictatorship: Propaganda and Thought Work in Contemporary ChinaThere has been rapid growth in biomedical engineering in recent decades, given advancements in medical imaging and physiological modelling and sensing systems, coupled with immense growth in computational and network technology, analytic approaches, visualization and virtual-reality, man-machine interaction and automation. Biomedical engineering involves applying engineering principles to the medical and biological sciences and it comprises several topics including biomedicine, medical imaging, physiological modelling and sensing, instrumentation, real-time systems, automation and control, signal processing, image reconstruction, processing and analysis, pattern recognition, and biomechanics. It holds great promise for the diagnosis and treatment of complex medical conditions, in particular, as we can now target direct clinical applications, research and development in biomedical engineering is helping us to develop innovative implants and prosthetics, create new medical imaging technologies and improve tools and techniques for the detection, prevention and treatment of diseases. The contributing authors in this edited book present representative surveys of advances in their respective fields, focusing in particular on techniques for the analysis of complex biomedical data. The book will be a useful reference for graduate students, researchers and industrial practitioners in computer science, biomedical engineering, and computational and molecular biology. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Guiding Hand The Role of the Propaganda System | 9 |
Types of Propaganda | 12 |
The Central Propaganda Department | 13 |
The Powers of the Central Propaganda Department | 15 |
Channels for Guidance | 19 |
The Structure of the Central Propaganda Department | 20 |
The Leadership of the Propaganda System | 22 |
The Market as a Means and a Justification for Control | 110 |
Appointing Gatekeepers as a Means of Control | 115 |
Rewards as a Means of Control | 116 |
Setting Social Norms as a Means of Control | 117 |
Conclusion | 119 |
Sex Crime Wheels of Law and Song Zuying Managing Information Communication Technology in China | 125 |
How China Manages the Internet | 126 |
The Use of Laws and Regulations to Control the Internet | 128 |
Office for Foreign PropagandaState Council Information Office | 23 |
Provincial and Local Level Propaganda Departments | 24 |
Some Other Organizations within the Propaganda System | 25 |
Conclusion | 30 |
From Thought Reform to Economic Reform Comparing Propaganda and Thought Work in Different Eras | 35 |
Propaganda and Thought Work in the Cultural Revolution 19661976 | 37 |
Propaganda and Thought Work in the PostMao Era | 39 |
Turning Point of a New Era | 41 |
Propaganda and Thought Work in the Post89 Era | 44 |
Modernizing and Rationalizing the Propaganda System | 48 |
Taiwan Crisis China Threat | 51 |
The Enemy Within and the Enemy Without | 53 |
Power StruggleJiang the Hardliner versus Hu the Reformer | 56 |
Hu the Conservative | 58 |
Conclusion | 60 |
Chinas Unseen Engineers Reform and Modernization in the Propaganda System | 65 |
The Origins of Modern PropagandaPR Work | 67 |
Rejecting the Goals but Not All the Methods of MaoEra Propaganda Methodology | 70 |
New Ways of Looking at Propaganda Work in China | 71 |
Adapting Western Social Science Theories to Chinese Needs | 72 |
Modernizing Traditional Propaganda Methods | 73 |
Political PR | 78 |
The Chinese Medias Revised Role | 79 |
Public Advertising | 83 |
24hour Spin Doctors | 86 |
Conclusion | 87 |
Regimenting the Public Mind The Methods of Control in the Propaganda System | 93 |
Propaganda Departments Role in Censorship | 94 |
Propaganda Guidelines as a Form of Control | 95 |
State Organizations with a Censorship Role | 104 |
Rule by Law | 109 |
Using Architecture to Control the Internet | 131 |
Norms as a Means to Control the Internet | 133 |
How China Uses the Market to Control the Internet | 135 |
The Internet as a New Locus for Chinas Propaganda and Thought Work | 137 |
Aggressive Use of the Internet by Government Agents | 139 |
Chinas Move to Infotainment | 140 |
Telecommunications as a Propaganda Tool | 142 |
Radios Role in Propaganda | 144 |
Conclusion | 145 |
Combating Hostile Forces Chinas Foreign Propaganda Work since 1989 | 151 |
Enemies All Over the World | 153 |
The Post1989 Foreign Propaganda Administrative System | 156 |
Foreign Propaganda Themes Post1989 | 158 |
Chinas Foreign Propagandists | 159 |
Chinas Foreign Propaganda Media | 166 |
Political PR Public Diplomacy and Spin Doctors | 169 |
Conclusion | 170 |
Models and AntiModels Searching for a New New China | 175 |
Propaganda and Thought Work in the CommunistPostCommunist World since 1989 | 178 |
The West as a Model for China | 180 |
Goodbye to AH That? | 182 |
A New New China | 186 |
Toward a New Paradigm of CCP Rule | 189 |
Rating the Effectiveness of Chinas Modernized Propaganda System | 192 |
Conclusion | 194 |
The Rebirth of the Propaganda State | 199 |
Glossary | 203 |
Selected Bibliography | 209 |
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About the Author | |