Projecting dissent: China’s new politics of resistance under surveillance

By Tao Zhang, Senior Lecturer, School of Arts & Humanities, Nottingham Trent University

As China ramped up its security in Bejing ahead of its largest military parade in history, over in Chongqing, a city of 30 million people, slogans mysteriously appeared projected on the walls of a university residential complex. “Only without the Communist Party can there be a new China,” read one. “Freedom is not given but seized,” said another. A third urged: “Down with red fascism, overthrow Communist tyranny.”

When the police finally tracked down…

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