title: Treason by the Book
author:  Jonathan D. Spence 
description: Is it possible to find out where rumors come from? Sometimes. In early-eighteenth-century China, Emperor Yongzheng deployed his vast bureaucracy to ferret out the origins of certain slanderous statements. The gossip proved to be part of a disinformation campaign run by rebels bent on overthrowing his dynasty. He quashed it by publishing a volume of some of the rebellious writings that had inspired the malcontents, along with rebuttals by a team of scholars, and then distributed it throughout his enormous empire as compulsory reading&#8211;&#8211;the Little Red Book of its day. In this fascinating detective story, many aspects of Qing society seem startlingly modern, such as the government's use of spin control and affirmative-action quotas. <br> Copyright &copy; 2005 <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-New-Yorker/dp/B00005N7T5/"><i>The New Yorker</i></a>
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