https://thediplomat.com/2014/08/chinas- ... i-jinping/
Simplistic 2-axis model from 2014
2017 academic study on the views of Chinese nationals
China’s Ideological Spectrum
Jennifer Pan, Stanford University
Yiqing Xu, University of California, San Diego
The study of ideology in authoritarian regimes—of how public preferences are configured and constrained—has received relatively little scholarly attention. Using data from a large-scale online survey, we study ideology in China. We find that public preferences are weakly constrained, and the configuration of preferences is multidimensional, but the latent traits of these dimensions are highly correlated. Those who prefer authoritarian rule are more likely to support nationalism, state intervention in the economy, and traditional social values; those who prefer democratic institutions and values are more likely to support market reforms but less likely to be nationalistic and less likely to support traditional social values. This latter set of preferences appears more in provinces with higher levels of development and among wealthier and better-educated respondents. These findings suggest that preferences are not simply split along a pro-regime or anti-regime cleavage and indicate a possible link between China’s economic reform and ideology.
What the above might look like in map form
Here is a more recent version containing a tasteful shoutout to the apathetic Silent Majority:
CCP - Chinese Communist Party.
Pinky (小粉红) - a derogatory term for vocal, hyper-nationalistic netizens who voluntarily defend ccp on all issues.(more descriptions)
Industrial-holic(工业党) - an intellectual group that worships industrial revolution and believes all political and social structure should be subservient to industrialization.
Ruguanist(入关学) - a recently emerged online group using cryptic 17th century history analogy to convey their message, that US is a declining empire and China should take over its place as the center of world order, by any means necessary.
Falungong(法轮功) - a religious cult purged and expelled by CCP from mainland China in 1999, now operates many far right medias based in US to spread anti-CCP messages on internet.
New Left(新左派) - a broad term for the new generation of serious leftists in china, often focused on criticizing the chinese economic reform and its neoliberal tendencies.(wiki)
Otaku Left(宅左) - a term for the phenomenon of growing leftist tendency among japanese anime-loving teenagers in China.
996ICU - a non-cooperation movement against the forced overtime working culture in China, launched in march 2019.(wiki)
Countryside Feminist(田园女权) - a derogatory term to describe many chinese women who label themselves as feminists but cherry pick the rights they want while evading social responsibilities.
Minyun(民运) - short for "Chinese Democracy Movements", mainly protesters and sympathizers of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest, most of them were later driven out from china and continued to vocally oppose one-party rule.(wiki)
Auntologist(姨学) - a cult-like following of a historian called Liu Zhongjing and his extremely(wacky) anti-ccp, anti-progressivism ideology that promoted the complete balkanization of China and Han chinese.(if you really want to know more)
Hong Kong Pan-Democrat - Pan-Democracy Camp is the main opposition camp in Hong Kong politics and major participant of the ongoing protest.(wiki))
More on the Silent Majority
In the centre four squares you have:
(Authleft) The CCP NPC: "Well diaoyudao is Chinese, CCTV said so!"
(Authright) The Traditionalist: "Hot water is good for the healthy"
(Libleft) The Gamer: "I just want to smoke and drink and go to the internet cafe and play League"
(Libright) The Fuerdai: "Can you pass me my Canada Goose jacket?"
Thoughts on how this compares and contrasts with the political spectrum in other countries?
