Since the days of Mao Zedong, smooth leadership transitions ... secretary at a particularly critical moment. Jiang oversaw a propaganda and political thought campaign to reinstate control in ...

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

When director Lei Junlin, 41, came up with the idea of producing an animated film about Mao Zedong's childhood ... attracted the involvement of the propaganda flagship Qiushi Journal in 2011.