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This book investigates the relationship between the Chinese Communist Party´s crucial goal of using the propaganda system to consolidate its power within the domestic political environment and its prominent recent attempts to use propaganda overseas to increase China´s international power.

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Table of Contents Introduction Analytical Approach Outline of Chapters Part I: CONTEMPORARY CHINESE PROPAGANDA PRACTICES 1. Propaganda, Power, and Cohesion in Chinese Politics 2. The Concept of Propaganda in China 3. The Domestic Propaganda System and China´s International Propaganda 4. Propaganda and Power 5. Propaganda and the Party-state´s Search for Cohesion 6. Propaganda in Chinese Domestic Politics 7. Propaganda Institutions in the Chinese Political System 8. Exercising Power through Propaganda Practices 9. The Traditional Media 10. The Internet 11. Civil Society and Education 12. Domestic Cohesion and Key Themes in Party-state Discourse 13. China´s Foreign Propaganda Practices 14. Foreign Propaganda Practices as a Component of Chinese Foreign Policy 15. Organization of Foreign Propaganda Practices 16. Exercising Power through Foreign Propaganda Practices 17. International Media 18. Public Diplomacy 19. Individuals and Organizations 20. Cohesion and Official Discourse in Foreign Propaganda Practices PART II: INTERACTION BETWEEN DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL PROPAGANDA 21. Conceptual Interaction: Soft Power and Cultural Cohesion 22. The Concept of Soft Power 23. Soft Power´s Emergence in China 24. The Concept of Soft Power in China 25. Propaganda, Cohesion, and Soft Power 26. Strategic Interaction: Global Times and the Main Melody3 27. News Media Propaganda Strategy 28. Huanqiu Shibao and Domestic Propaganda Strategy 29. Upholding the Main Melody in Huanqiu Shibao 30. Global Times and International Propaganda Strategy 31. The Chinese Perspective in Global Times 32. Tactical Interaction: Public Opinion Crises and the Official Truth 33. Public Opinion and Sudden Incidents in China 34. Domestic Crises 35. Domestic Responses 36. International Crises 37. International Responses 38. Ethnic Tensions and Transnational Crises 39. Distinguishing Truth from Lies at Home and Abroad Conclusion Bibliography

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Kingsley Edney is Lecturer in Politics and International Relations of China in the School of Politics and International Studies at the University of Leeds, UK

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