The project Propaganda and Censorship in Deng Xiaoping’s China, 1978 – 1997 aims at the production of a primary source textbook that will afford students of journalism, media studies and mass communication, as well as a general audience interested in China, an opportunity to read and interpret original material illustrating the Chinese Communist Party’s changing system of media control – from the crude system of the immediate post-Mao period to the increasingly sophisticated but dysfunctional system as it existed on the eve of the arrival of the Internet Age. The sources, most of which are translated and made available here for the first time, emanate with China’s highest propaganda and censorship organs and have been selected from the Communist Party’s most authoritative internal serials for media officials. Texts include many of the key directives that guided party censors, editors, journalists, publishers and propagandists promoting the reform policies of the Deng Xiaoping leadership. Also included are candid reports on the implementation of those same policies for a carefully screened audience of high-level officials. The reader will provide a unique “behind the scenes” look at the world of the spin doctors who shaped and controlled China’s political discourse from the late 1970s when “class struggle” was still a favorite term, through the 1980s when “getting rich” replaced “being revolutionary” as the overriding imperative. Rare texts from the time of the 1989 “Democracy Movement” will include censorship directives turning Premier Zhao Ziyang into a non-person, notifications clamping down on outspoken newspapers, and quasi-historical model accounts meant to guide the national media's revision of the past to fit the present.