The Domesticated Festival

The Dual-Layer Corpus comprises two genre-distinct collections of Chinese top leader discourse. The Blueprint Layer consists of 17 authoritative documents distributed across three leadership eras: six texts from the Jiang era (1992-2002), five from the Hu era (2003-2012), and six from the Xi era (2013-2025). Each era’s Blueprint corpus includes all Party Congress reports delivered during that period, supplemented by major commemorative speeches at milestone anniversaries of the founding of the Party, the Reform and Opening-Up policy, and the People’s Republic. These occasions are selected for their consistently high ideological density, second only to Party Congress reports in doctrinal authority. Although the study period nominally begins in 1993, the Blueprint corpus includes the 1992 14th Party Congress Report: in the Chinese political system, paramount authority resides in the General Secretaryship rather than the Presidency, and Jiang Zemin had already assumed that position in 1989.