Preface -- Introduction -- Guiding hand : the role of the propaganda system -- From thought reform to economic reform : comparing propaganda and thought work in different eras -- China's unseen engineers : reform and modernization in the propaganda system -- Regimenting the public mind : the methods of control in the propaganda system -- Sex crime, wheels of law, and Song Zuying : managing information communication technology in China -- Combating hostile forces : China's foreign propaganda work since 1989 -- Models and anti-models : searching for a new, new China -- The rebirth of the propaganda state.