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