China Media Project Discourse Tracker August 2024
CMP Discourse Tracker / August 2024
A month-to-month reading of the Chinese Communist Party's flagship People's Daily newspaper and key discourse trends – with crucial context, from China Media Project’s
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As we prepare to hit “publish” on this latest edition of the CMP Discourse Tracker, covering August 2024, the top story promoted on the front-page of the People’s Daily, just to the right of the masthead, is a read-out from the 17th collective study session of the Politburo. The study session, which addressed the question of building China as a “cultural power” (文化强国), was naturally led by Xi Jinping. But how is the session significant? How should we begin to “read” it? And why, as China w…