Rebecca MacKinnon has a post (and the video) of a talk she gave a few days ago at the Berkman Center on "China and the Global Internet."  She makes the key point that the CCP has already lost control of the culture, the definition of "Chinese-ness."  There are just too many people creating too many images and sounds and cultural products for the Party to control.  I agree, and I have made a similar point here. 

But, I still think that, even though it has already lost control of the culture, the Party continues, futilely, to try to control the culture, not as much as in Maoist times but more than is practicable in globalization times.

Interestingly, MacKinnon cites the Daodejing in the second slide of her presentation.  She opts for passage 29; "The kingdom is a spirit-like thing, and cannot be got by active doing.  He who would so win it destroys it; he who would hold it in his grasp loses it."   Just so.  But I do like Hinton's translation better: "All beneath heaven is a sacred vessel, something beyond all improvement.  Try to improve it and you ruin it.  Try to hold it and you lose it."  Somebody please tell Hu Jintao….