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Bing Dian Stories

Author(s): Datong Li
Subject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Institutul Cultural Român
Keywords: China; communist ideology in China; media as tool of Chinese ideology

Summary/Abstract: «In the China of the 1990s, there was a phenomenon in officialdom known as “officials make statistics, statistics make officials”. Government officials at all levels of the administration reported to the next level up economic statistics which had been deliberately doubled so the official could “inflate their own importance”», says the author. This method goes even further, building media pedestals for deceased ordinary party activists.

  • Issue Year: 2006
  • Issue No: 60
  • Page Range: 91-96
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Romanian
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