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TheRed Song Society (simplified Chinese:红歌会网;traditional Chinese:紅歌會網;lit. 'Red Song Society Website') is a Chinese website promotingMaoism inmainland China, sponsored by Shenzhen Red Song Society Culture Consulting Co., Ltd. The website's motto is "singred songs; promote righteous ways".
Created in May 2011, the website was formerly known as the Shenzhen Red Song Society Forum.[1] After theBo Xilai incident in 2012, the website was shut down, along with theUtopia andMaoflag, but later restarted.[2]
In 2017, a member of the website and Hong Zhenquai, a Chinese writer for the magazineYanhuang Chunqiu, went tried in thePeople's Court ofBao'an District,Shenzhen City for questioning the authenticity of theFive Heroes of Mountain Langya. Hong lost in the first trial and subsequently filed an appeal.[3] In 2018, the ShenzhenIntermediate People's Court inGuangdong province issued a review verdict that the Red Song Society website did not constitute an infringement of Hong Zhenquai's reputation rights.[4] However, according to Guo and Garrick, the case is still under review.[3]
In 2019, the site participated in online criticism of the websiteVisual China, over claims that it had criticizedMao Zedong by putting the word "dictator" in the caption of some of its photos. Visual China was fined for its conduct.[5]
In July 2022, Hubei Daily Media Group announced that it had sued the Red Song Society for reprinting an article without permission.[6]
The Red Song Society has been described as a Maoist left-wing or far-left website.[7][8]Jude Blanchet, who majored in China'sneo-Maoism, describes the website as the neo-Maoist version ofDrudge Report.[9] An article from theEconomist says posts on the Red Song Society argue that life was fairer in theMao era, because the state then provided free housing, free education and free medical care for urban workers at the time.[6]
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