ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the ethical and political significance of the state-owned design institute of Mao and post-Mao China. Large in scale and broad in technical service, it is behind all works in modern China since 1949, from Tiananmen Square of the 1950s to the CCTV of the 2010s. Yet the institute is hardly studied. This chapter traces its history and investigates its political ethics. Discovering that state authority plays a central role and forms a central topic, this study covers a China–Europe comparison on the concept of statehood and argues that the institute provides new thinking regarding government and progressive ethics.
