Xi Corpus Atlas Politburo Study政治局集体学习 Methodology ↗
Xi Corpus · Sub-Report 03

Politburo Collective Study政治局集体学习

Every 政治局集体学习 session of the Xi era — topic, date, lecturer, and institutional affiliation — scraped from 人民网 index tables and enriched with full readout text from Xinhua / Renminwang (with Wayback fallback for WAF-blocked URLs).
107sessions 18th · 19th · 20thCentral Committee 2012-11-17 → 2026-01-30 source:corpus/politburo_study_sessions.jsonl

At a glance · 概览

Curriculum over time · 每场集体学习按主题分行

Each row is a theme; each dot a session on its date. Shaded bands mark the three CC terms. A red-ringed dot = a published Xi speech exists (click → side-by-side compare); a plain dot = readout only (click → readout). Click a legend entry to mute/unmute a theme.

Theme matrix · 主题 × 届

Sessions per theme per term. Cell shading = that theme's share of the term's curriculum; the number is the session count. Rows sorted by total — the agenda's rise and fall at a glance.

Who teaches Xi · 讲解人来自哪类机构

Lecturers' home-institution type per term — the academic ↔ official ↔ military mix, and how it shifts. 每场集体学习按讲解人所在机构类型归类(同一场可计入多类)。

Top named institutions · 重点讲解机构 · click to expand each session

The specific organizations that supply Politburo study lecturers, ranked by number of sessions. Click any institution to open every session it taught — the lecturer, topic and date, with a link to that session's side-by-side readout / speech compare. 点击任一机构,展开其全部讲解场次:讲解人、议题、日期,并链接到该场的“通稿(读出)/ 讲话全文”并排对照页。

The lecturers · 讲解人全谱

Not every session has an outside teacher. Across all sessions, distinct outside experts briefed the expert-briefed sessions; the rest were Politburo self-study or field study — members speak, no external lecturer. Only experts were ever invited back. 并非每场都有外请专家:部分为政治局“自学交流”或“现场调研”。下方先按授课形式与单位类型统计,再列全部讲解人及其讲解议题(中英对照)。

Full roster · 全部讲解人 · name · institution · what they lectured on

Cadence · 节奏(相邻两场间隔天数)

Median = · Mean = · Max gap plotted at x.

Readout length · 通稿字数

Histogram of per-session body text size. Length proxies how much detail Xinhua released.

History-session deep dive · 18 sessions, 2013–2024

Companion to the allusion work. Full prose version: HISTORY_SESSIONS_ANALYSIS.html.

Key finding: across all 18 history-tagged readouts, Xi names zero emperors and zero dynasties by name. The historical specifics live with the lecturers; Xinhua prints only Xi's takeaway — delivered as slogan and general principle. The emperor/dynasty register you see in 用典 and 治国理政 is a different genre.

The only 10 classical formulas Xi quotes across all 18 sessions

FormulaSourceSessions
民惟邦本、政得其民尚书·五子之歌018
礼法合治、德主刑辅Confucian legal tradition018
为政之要莫先于得人 / 惟在得人贞观政要 (Tang)018 · 053
治国先治吏classical proverb018 · 053
居安思危、改易更化左传 + Han reform018
蠹众而木折,隙大而墙坏商君书·修权005
善则赏之、过则匡之、患则救之、失则革之国语·晋语七053
择其善者而从之、其不善者而去之论语·述而018
法安天下、德润人心classical pairing037
育才造士,为国之本欧阳修 (Song)053

No poetry. No 苏轼, no 王安石, no 张居正. No foreign attribution beyond Marx/Engels as framework. Contrast 用典 第一辑+二辑: 415 classical citations with Tang/Song poetry dominant.

Four-phase arc across Xi's three terms

Phase 1 · Methodological foundation (2013–2014 · sessions 005, 007, 011, 013, 018)
History as method. Party history, historical materialism, imperial governance as model. Xi explicitly rules out 历史虚无主义.
Phase 2 · Strategic framing (2015–2017 · sessions 025, 029, 031, 037)
History mobilized for policy: Silk Road → OBOR, WWII commemoration, law+virtue doctrine, patriotism.
Phase 3 · Red lineage (2018–2021 · sessions 053, 057, 066, 074)
Party / revolutionary history moves to front. Centenary prep. Offsite session at 北大红楼 + 毛泽东故居 (074). 党史学习 campaign.
Phase 4 · Civilization + ethnic consolidation (2022–2024 · sessions 082, 093, 101)
探源工程, 中华民族共同体, 边疆治理 — history underwriting Xinjiang/Tibet/frontier policy via civilizational unity.

Repeat lecturers

Lecturer#SessionsAffiliation
卜宪群3005 · 018 · 053CASS 历史所
李国强2031 · 101CASS 边疆所 → 历史研究院

12 of 18 lecturers are CASS or its 2019 spinoff 历史研究院 (which Xi himself established). The institutional pipeline Xi built now feeds his own curriculum.

Xi's signature history-prose (non-classical, recurring)

SloganFirstRecurs
五千(多)年文明018007 · 029 · 057 · 066 · 082 · 093
讲仁爱、重民本、守诚信、崇正义、尚和合、求大同013 (2014)082 (2022) — verbatim, 8yrs later
创造性转化、创新性发展013029 · 066 · 082 · 093
中华民族共同体029 (embryonic)082 · 093 · 101
历史虚无主义 (as enemy)018074
大历史观057

Vocabulary shifts across three terms · 三届话语演变

读出 Readout 讲话 Speech

Keyword rates normalized per 10,000 characters so terms of different volume compare fairly; signature phrases via weighted log-odds (boilerplate suppressed). Toggle between the third-person readout corpus (all 107 sessions) and Xi's first-person speech corpus (the sessions with a published speech). 按每万字归一化的词频;可在第三人称“读出/通稿”语料与习近平第一人称“讲话全文”语料之间切换。

Thematic bucket trajectories · phrase-rate · 主题词频轨迹

Normalize 归一方式: per 10K chars 按字数 per document 按篇

Sensitivity check. Where the two views agree, the trend is robust; where they diverge (e.g. Party/ideology's CC18 peak shrinks under per-document), the level is driven by a few long documents. Read the slope, not the rank — bucket heights also reflect how many phrases a bucket contains (6–28). 敏感性检验:两种归一方式一致则趋势稳健;若分歧(如意识形态CC18峰值在“按篇”下回落)则说明被少数长文档主导。看趋势而非高低。

Which phrases are in each bucket? 各主题桶包含哪些词条? — every phrase is verified to occur in the corpus; counts shown are total occurrences

Top 24 phrase shifts · by rate-range across terms

Numbers in each cell are raw counts. Bar height and Δ are normalized per 10K body-text chars (CC18≈70K · CC19≈92K · CC20≈53K) so differences in how much text Xinhua published each term don't distort the comparison. Hover a cell for the exact rate.

Signature 4-grams per term · log-odds distinctive (readouts)

Character 4-grams most distinctive to each term by weighted log-odds (informative Dirichlet prior) — characteristic of this term vs. the other two, with meeting-template boilerplate suppressed. Reads as fragments of each term's agenda.

Readout vs. speech · 通稿与讲话全文的语言差异

For the sessions that have both a People's-Daily readout (third-person summary, 通稿) and Xi's later-published speech (first-person, 讲话全文), language is compared by weighted log-odds (Monroe, Colaresi & Quinn) and curated-phrase rate per 10K chars — on the same sessions, so this isolates register: what Xi emphasizes vs. what the summary foregrounds. Caveat: only ~half of sessions have a published speech (skewed toward ideology / economy / Party topics), so the cross-term speech grams further down are suggestive; this paired diff is the rigorous comparison.

Register signature · marker rate per 10K, paired sessions

First-person & directive markers. Readouts attribute in the third person (强调 = "[he] stressed"); speeches speak in the first person (我 / 我们).

Xi emphasizes more · than the readout conveys

Readout foregrounds more · than Xi's own speech

Speech vocabulary by term · most distinctive 4-grams (log-odds) — read with the selection caveat

Sessions

One acknowledged gap. Across all 108 numbered sessions, CC20 session 13 is absent from the People's Daily index (the upstream source for this corpus). The official numbering jumps from 第十二次 (2024-02-29 · 新能源技术与我国的能源安全) to 第十四次 (2024-05-27 · 促进高质量充分就业) — an 88-day gap vs. CC20's 54-day median. Most likely a session held but never publicly reported. No other CC term has a numbering gap. A placeholder row appears at the bottom of the table below.

Two texts per session 每场两种文本 Topic 议题 → readout 人民网通稿(第三人称) Compare ⇄ 对照 → readout Xi's speech side-by-side 通稿 + 讲话全文 并排(可切换单看) = no speech published yet 暂无讲话全文
All terms 18th 19th 20th 📜 has speech 仅含讲话
# Date日期 Term届·次 Theme主题分类 Topic → readout议题 → 读出通稿 Compare ⇄对照(通稿/讲话) Lecturer · affiliation讲解人 · 单位 Chars字数