Mao's propaganda

Education

Tweaking or exaggerating past events to glorify Mao or the CCP

The Long March (Actually a retreat)

The Korean War

Teaching Maoist Ideologies as facts

Foreigners and the west were evil

The 'Mao Zedong Thought' could solve any issue

Workers and Soldiers

Calls To Action

How Propagana Was Spread

Model workers or soldiers were created as a figure for workers and soldiers to aspire to.

The Cultural Revolution (1966-76)

The PLA was portayed as strong and sucessful through the highlighting of the Yan'an struggles, the Long March and the Sino-Japanese war as well as the Chinese Civil war

Lei Fung was a possibly ficticious soldier

Through the use of propaganda, many people went through 'Thought Reform,' encouraged to act in the interest of the State by following and actively supporting campaigns

'The Great Leap Forward' was encouraged through propaganda leading to many people starting furnaces in their gardens to make steel for the industry, or for people to move out of farming and take on industrial jobs.

'The 4 Pests' Campaign followed Lysenkoism and encouraged people to kill sparrows, flies, mosquitos and rats

Workers were expected to know quotes out of the Little Red Book' by heart

Staged Events

The Media

Word of Mouth

Censoring

Forms of foreign literature were banned from Chinese schools. Any criticism of the CCP or policies were also censored, as were any reports of failures of Mao.

Through the Long March, the Red Army was able to spread the words of Mao to the peasants along the way

The local cadres, assigned to different divisions of the population, they were able to advocate for Mao during group meetings

The swim in the yangxe river in July 1966 to symbolise Mao's strenghth was staged

Rallies and meetings were publicies showing the crows of people cheering for Mao

Newspapers such as the 'People's Daily' critcised Mao's adversaries and censored controvercial news sories, and promoted Mao's Sucesses

Loudspeakers were placed in every village

Those people with TVs faced propagana through news chanels