Late leader Mao Zedong talked about (speaking Chinese), or self-reliance, a lot. And this propaganda song from the early 1940s extolled the virtues of self-reliance in agriculture. (SOUNDBITE OF ...

Most notably, it was Mao Zedong in 1945 that first promoted self-reliance via his slogan, “regeneration through one’s own efforts (zili gengsheng).” Mao’s influence on self-reliance ...

Mao's 1964 "Third Front Construction" initiative was motivated by Cold War fears of nuclear attack, fuelled by the deepening American involvement in Vietnam and increased hostility between China ...

is a Mao-era slogan that arguably represents the posture of a government feeling threatened by what it calls “hostile foreign forces” while also defiant—zili gengsheng, or “self-reliance.” ...

Working hard and enduring hardship (吃苦耐劳, 卧薪尝胆）, Striving unremittingly (自强不息，from the Book of Changes or I Ching) and Self-reliance ... with USSR, Mao and CPC never ...

For more than a decade the privately run website and its social-media accounts have been pumping out articles that praise Mao Zedong and ... that is the point of propaganda. But independent ...

In Inner Mongolia, he has revived a Mao-era propaganda tool: Ulan Muqir troupes. Founded in 1957, their name means “Red Bud” in Mongolian, and early teams would carry news and party ideology ...