Becoming the Mouthpiece: Capture, Transform, and Propagandize Intellectuals

• In Event: Historical Political Economy of Modern China

Brief Overview

This study uses text analysis to investigate how Mao's Yan'an Rectification Movement transformed idealists into propagandists, detailing the capture, ideological re-education, and deployment of intellectuals to build a unified party narrative.

Authors

• Bokai Qi, New York University

• Xingchen Lan, New York University

• Yinxuan Wang, New York University