All 21 Uses
propaganda
in
Mao’s Last Dancer
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- He was politically astute, and the head of the propaganda department for the Building Materials Bureau in Qingdao.†
Chpt 1.3 *propaganda = one-sided information that is purposefully spread to influence opinions
- I thought maybe that was why he was head of the propaganda department.†
Chpt 1.3
- The officials and Red Guards handed out propaganda papers.†
Chpt 1.4
- One man kept shouting propaganda slogans with a handheld speaker.†
Chpt 1.4
- I didn't learn much academic stuff at all during my time at school, except the many propaganda phrases and songs, and many of those I didn't even understand.†
Chpt 1.6
- I didn't think of it as another propaganda campaign to secure our loyalty to Mao and his communist state.†
Chpt 1.6
- During those school years of mine, the central government released Mao's newest propaganda campaigns one after another.†
Chpt 1.6
- But even after hearing years of fearful propaganda about America and the West, the book was enough to plant a seed of curiosity in my heart.†
Chpt 1.6
- Once or, if we were lucky, twice a year, a small group of people from the Qingdao Propaganda Bureau would come to our village to entertain us with a movie about things likeMao's Red Army triumphing against the Japanese army, or Chiang Kaishek's Guomindang regime, or the struggle against the class enemies, or touching stories about Mao's revolutionary heroes.†
Chpt 1.6
- It was a long drive, and one of the teachers suggested we sing propaganda songs as we went along, and this too temporarily kept my attention.†
Chpt 2.8
- All were full of propaganda and all were controlled by the Gang of Four.†
Chpt 2.9
- There was also the Reference Paper, but this was only available to a certain level of Communist Party member, and it included slightly more international news and slightly less propaganda.†
Chpt 2.9
- The government's propaganda machine went into full swing and the Chinese media boasted of nothing else.†
Chpt 2.10
- But I did notice that the attacks on America's evil capitalist values by the Chinese propaganda machines eased considerably while President Nixon was there.†
Chpt 2.10
- But propaganda ensured we believed that the Chinese model ballets were the world's best.†
Chpt 2.10
- We could hear an extraordinary noise as we got close—loud drums, cymbals, trumpets, instruments of all kinds mixed in with the exuberant, feverish shouting of propaganda slogans.†
Chpt 2.13
- I also knew a few propaganda words and some communist expressions that might come in handy.†
Chpt 2.18
- Now I knew, with absolute certainty, that I had been manipulated by Chairman Mao's communist propaganda for many years.†
Chpt 3.20
- This must surely be Western propaganda.†
Chpt 3.20
- I knew what he said was true—he had spent the best part of his youth pursuing nothing but propaganda.†
Chpt 3.29
- Suddenly, in the middle of the drinking binge, my big uncle, my niang's eldest brother who was head of the propaganda department for the Qingdao Building Materials Bureau, made a request and everyone cheered him on.†
Chpt 3.30
Definitions:
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(1)
(propaganda) one-sided information that is purposefully spread to influence opinions -- often misleading information of a political nature
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)