Marketing Dictatorship ─ Propaganda and Thought Work in Contemporary China

Brady (political science and communication, U. of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ) attempts to show that the Central Propaganda Department of China, far from being usurped by the developments culminating in the 1989 demonstrations against it and the subsequent policy changes, has in fact become the unifying force holding China under the Communist Party's sway. Brady's extensive, hard-won research behind the scenes of the Department reveals agile policy-makers attempting to distance themselves from Marxist ideology and the Eastern Bloc's fate, while retaining single-party domination over China. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Anne-Marie Brady is associate professor in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Canterbury. She is the presenter for the BBC documentary "The Message from China."