Bibliographic record
Abstract
In 1978, Deng Xiaoping, leader of the Chinese Community Party (CCP), loosened the government’s control over information in China. Eleven years later, the country would experience a massive wave of protests in which citizens demanded reforms and democratization. Within weeks, the protestor-occupied Tiananmen Square, for which the protests would be named, was violently cleared by CCP forces, causing immense outrage not only within China but throughout the world. Immediately following the massacre, the government would swiftly tighten its grip on information and censorship, especially relating to government dissent. In this paper, I follow the story of the infamous Tiananmen Square protests and its enduring legacy to argue that information control is the most important way the CCP consolidates power in China. More specifically, I discuss how information control (particularly propaganda and censorship) has evolved throughout post-1948 Chinese history, and the ways in which the Tiananmen Square protests prompted the use of information control as a method of consolidating power within the CCP.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".