The term is a distillation of what is known as the вЂњ Four Consciousnesses,вЂќ which is fundamentally about Xi JinpingвЂ™s вЂњ coreвЂќ status. 27 notice on fandom communities-вЂњNotice on the Further Strengthening of the Management of вЂFandom Chaos'вЂќ-describes the political objectives driving this clean-up of вЂњfandom chaos.вЂќ The notice says that вЂњall regions must further improve their political stance,вЂќ or zhengzhi zhanwei, which is a term that came to prominence in 2018 to signal allegiance to Xi Jinping and the CCP. As ChinaвЂ™s reform-minded premier, Zhao Ziyang, was shoved aside in the wake of the massacre, and as Jiang Zemin assumed leadership of the Party, the project of ensuring the control of news and ideology to preserve regime stability was given a new catchphrase: вЂњguidance of public opinion.вЂќ The phrase came directly from language in the PartyвЂ™s assessment, published in the journal China Comment, of Premier ZhaoвЂ™s failings of that spring. But it is important to recall that the most enduring lesson Party leaders took away in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Massacre was the imperative of mastering the social zeitgeist, ensuring especially that the thoughts and ideas driving ChinaвЂ™s youth can be directed through effective controls on culture and the media. It may seem a stretch to compare such historical upheavals to the myriad iterations of online youth culture in China today. The Chinese leadership understands the immense impact youth movements have had in the countryвЂ™s political past-from the May Fourth Movement at the start of the 20 th century, to the chaos wrought by MaoвЂ™s Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 70s, to the large-scale pro-democracy demonstrations of 1989.

The aid offered by the Zhu Yilong network is just one of many examples of how online groups provided a crucial means of support amid a rapidly unfolding crisis. These and other supplies were delivered to Wuhan within 24 hours, offering much-needed support for medical personnel and others on the front lines. 21, 2020, one day after China confirmed human transmission of COVID-19, the fan network of Zhu Yilong, a young actor originally from the city of Wuhan, mobilized funds to purchase more than 200,000 protective masks.

By contrast, the networks already formed within fandom culture-the same that allowed mobilization in support of chosen idols-enabled the rapid marshalling of resources. In January 2020, as it became clear that an epidemic had emerged in Wuhan and surrounding areas, the government response was far too slow in many key areas, including the provision of protective equipment.

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