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The research investigates how authoritarian regimes construct narratives to maintain legitimacy and control.

December 19, 2025Open Access

The Art of Storytelling in Authoritarian Regimes: Crafting State Narratives on Chinese Social Media

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The research investigates how authoritarian regimes construct narratives to maintain legitimacy and control.
Used quantitative narrative analysis of Chinese social media posts
Analyzed posts from government, state media, and celebrity accounts
Extracted subject-verb-object triplets to identify narrative structures
Focused on narratives related to politically consequential events
Identified that legitimacy implications affect regime storytelling strategies
Found that citizen verification capacity influences narrative response mechanisms
Revealed the complex nature of propaganda as adaptive to context
Highlighted the interplay of top-down and bottom-up narrative approaches

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TLTing LuoThe Edgbaston Hospital YWYan WangQingdao University

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Quantitative narrative analysis reveals storytelling shapes propaganda in authoritarian regimes, highlighting narrative structures and citizen perceptions.

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Luo et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69449a922f0218eca95086f7 https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2512.11875

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Quantitative narrative analysis reveals storytelling shapes propaganda in authoritarian regimes, highlighting narrative structures and citizen perceptions.

The Art of Storytelling in Authoritarian Regimes: Crafting State Narratives on Chinese Social Media

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