The Hottest App in China Teaches Citizens About Their Leader — and, Yes, There’s a Test
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/07/world/asia/china-xi-jinping-study-the-great-nation-app.html
CHANGSHA, China — Inside a fishing gear store on a busy city street, the owner sits behind a counter, furiously tapping a smartphone to improve his score on an app that has nothing to do with rods, reels and bait. The owner, Jiang Shuiqiu, a 35-year-old army veteran, has a different obsession : earning points on Study the Great Nation, a new app devoted to promoting President Xi Jinping and the ruling Communist Party — a kind of high-tech equivalent of Mao’s Little Red Book. Mr. Jiang spends (...)
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