Media Representations of China: A Comparison of <i>China Daily</i> and <i>Financial Times</i> in Reporting on the Belt and Road Initiative

Zhang, Lejin; Wu, Doreen D.

doi:10.1080/02560046.2017.1408132

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“…Our data do not allow us to list the reasons that caused this change, but we bring to the discussion researchers who point out that Chinese state communicationwhich controls most of the country's newspapers, including China Daily -was used to maintain and increase its political legitimacy [Lemus-Delgado, 2020]. As the first English-language Chinese newspaper, and distributed in several countries, China Daily's mission is to brand China to the outside world [Zhang & Wu, 2017].…”

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Politics, economy and society in the coverage of COVID-19 by elite newspapers in US, UK, China and Brazil: a text mining approach

Neves¹,

Massarani²

2022

JCOM

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We analyzed 95,970 stories on COVID-19 published in 2020 by newspapers in US, UK, China and Brazil — countries marked by controversial management of the crisis. Through a text mining approach, we identified main topics, subjects, actors and the level of attention. The coverage was politicized in “The New York Times” and “Folha de S. Paulo”; focused on health aspects in “The Guardian”; and emphasized the economic situation in “China Daily”. In this sense, the pandemic has motivated a deeper approach to the multiple dimensions of science and health, pointing to a broader perspective of science communication.

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Politics, economy and society in the coverage of COVID-19 by elite newspapers in US, UK, China and Brazil: a text mining approach

Neves¹,

Massarani²

2022

JCOM

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“…Zhang L (2010) explored the image of China in three international newspapers in Europe. Zhang L and Wu (2017) used critical discourse analysis to examine the representation of China by China Daily. To summarize all of these studies, it was found that China's national image was portrayed as a peace-loving country, a developing country, and an anti-hegemonic nation by Chinese media (Wang, 2003;Zhang L and Wu, 2017).…”

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“…Click one node in this graph to see the third layer (c) and detailed events associated with this node. The last three figures (d-f) show coarse-grained topics and the tone of news and emotion analysis portrayed by foreign media was usually mixed and conflicted, such as a socialist country, a significant power, an authoritarian state, and a militant obstructive force (Zhang L and Wu, 2017). These methods prefer manual analysis and lack fine-grained analysis and scalability.…”

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“…The traditional analysis of national image often uses surface analysis based on corpus and media content (Manheim and Albritton, 1984). According to the traditional analysis, China's image has been portrayed as a peace-loving country (Wang, 2003;Zhang L and Wu, 2017), a developing country, and an anti-hegemonic nation (Wang, 2003) by Chinese media. China's image portrayed by overseas media has usually been mixed and conflicted (Zhang L and Wu, 2017), and portrayed as a socialist country, a significant power, an authoritarian state, and a militant obstructive force (Wang, 2003;Zhang L and Wu, 2017).…”

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China in the eyes of news media: a case study under COVID-19 epidemic

Huang

Chen

Shi

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Front Inform Technol Electron Eng

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As one of the early COVID-19 epidemic outbreak areas, China attracted the global news media’s attention at the beginning of 2020. During the epidemic period, Chinese people united and actively fought against the epidemic. However, in the eyes of the international public, the situation reported about China is not optimistic. To better understand how the international public portrays China, especially during the epidemic, we present a case study with big data technology. We aim to answer three questions: (1) What has the international media focused on during the COVID-19 epidemic period? (2) What is the media’s tone when they report China? (3) What is the media’s attitude when talking about China? In detail, we crawled more than 280 000 pieces of news from 57 mainstream media agencies in 22 countries and made some interesting observations. For example, international media paid more attention to Chinese livelihood during the COVID-19 epidemic period. In March and April, “progress of Chinese vaccines,” “specific drugs and treatments,” and “virus outbreak in U.S.” became the media’s most common topics. In terms of news attitude, Cuba, Malaysia, and Venezuela had a positive attitude toward China, while France, Canada, and the United Kingdom had a negative attitude. Our study can help understand China’s image in the eyes of the international media and provide a sound basis for image analysis.

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“…DosSantos (2018) pointed out great prospects for linguistic development.The BRI is more likely to enable development, simplification, and expansion of Chinese and other languages, in terms of speaking, learning, and understanding. Since 2017, 131 Confucius Chinese language courses and 137 Confucius Institutes have been announced in more than 50 "OBOR" nations Zhang and Wu (2017). shed light on the media-related implications of BRI.…”

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A comprehensive overview of China's belt and road initiative and its implication for the region and beyond

Rahman

2020

Journal of Public Affairs

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The primary objective of this study is to present the background and overview of the Chinese belt and road initiative (BRI) project while exploring views, opinions, skepticisms, and challenges related to this initiative. President Xi Jinping initiated the Silk Road Economic Belt (SREB) and the 21st-century Maritime Silk Road (MSR) to boost regional cooperation, which was later officially named as the One Built One Road (OBOR) or BRI. To this date, more than 65 nations from Asia, Europe, and Northeast Africa have joined the "BRI," to revive the old silk road. In an official document, "the Vision and Action of the OBOR," China plans to realize five cooperation and development plans, comprising of six intercontinental economic corridors. These projects are expected to bring collective economic growth in BRI member economies while keeping China at the heart of such development. The five main facets of "OBOR" cooperation include infrastructure connectivity, policy communications, finance, trade, and people-to-people bonds to encourage regional cooperation and mutual growth. 1 | BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY 1.1 | One Belt One Road/(Yidai Yilu, 一带一路) or belt and road initiative In 2013, China started the "B&R" initiative with the aims of promoting international cooperation, connectivity, and international trade to facilitate harmonized global economic development (Muzapu,

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Media Representations of China: A Comparison of China Daily and Financial Times in Reporting on the Belt and Road Initiative

Cited by 49 publications

References 6 publications

Politics, economy and society in the coverage of COVID-19 by elite newspapers in US, UK, China and Brazil: a text mining approach

Politics, economy and society in the coverage of COVID-19 by elite newspapers in US, UK, China and Brazil: a text mining approach

China in the eyes of news media: a case study under COVID-19 epidemic

A comprehensive overview of China's belt and road initiative and its implication for the region and beyond

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