It cites the internet and some poorly regulated newspapers in China as conduits for dangerous views.But ideological crackdowns are not what they used to be in Mr Zhao's day, when party control was far more pervasive and any hint of tightening would quickly send ripples of unease across the nation.
Peerman cited reasons such as suspected personal jealousy of Li Hongzhi; Saich points to Jiang's anger at Falun Gong's widespread appeal, and ideological struggle as causes for the crackdown that followed.
Given the Communist Party's control over the country's universities and a continuing crackdown on dissent — including an ideological campaign against Western-inspired liberalism — Professor Xia's supporters say it is naïve to rule out politics.
Jinggang praised Xi's push to strengthen the party's ideological work and said his "mass line" campaign and crackdown on corruption had some similarities with Maoism in understanding the need to involve the masses rather than just relying on the elites.
He praised Xi's push to strengthen the party's ideological work and said his "mass line" campaign and crackdown on corruption had some similarities with Maoism in understanding the need to involve the masses in the party, rather than just relying on the elites.
As the Communist Party, adopting a market economy, shed some of its ideological orthodoxy, anything seemed possible — at least, until the next crackdown.
This is not only true for the demonised Islamist camp: the crackdown has reached every voice of opposition across the ideological and political spectrum.
Cable, a senior figure in the coalition who lost his seat at the last election, said the government's crackdown was part of a raft of "very hard ideological" policies being pushed through by Tory ministers in the first months of the new parliament.
In what may be the single most Democratic state in the country, with a huge, fast-growing Latino population, the area known as the Inland Empire — a sprawl of suburbs, old and new — has emerged as a pocket of ideological resistance in a state that has grown increasingly averse to crackdowns on immigration.
The group said: "The [Chinese] government has ratcheted up censorship of the internet, clamped down on civil society, increased its ideological controls over the media and academia, and launched several large-scale crackdowns on human rights defenders, lawyers, and activists.
