A Discourse Analysis of News Translation in China offers hitherto underexplored inroads into Chinese media through insider perspectives on a unique Chinese newspaper, Cankao Xiaoxia which not only is the largest circulating newspaper in China but is also unique in that its news consists entirely of stories translated from foreign news sources. The size of the publication, the unique nature of the publication, and the view from the inside of such an organization gathered through interviews with its employees give this proposed book a highly unique perspective that will inform our understanding of the workings of Chinese media in important ways.

This book examines China’s identity transformations with a focus on self-perceptions and their representations and communication in the mass media. By considering the internal dynamics of change, it explores the emerging multifaceted ‘China brand’. With its growing economic clout, China has taken a proactive stance in shaping global economic and strategic order through ambitious programmes such as the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and the ‘Belt and Road’ initiative. However, as a developing country, China is at pains to manage its own transformations while trying to carve out an international identity. Arguably, China’s unique sense of history and identities may lead to a ‘contested modernity’ or ‘multiple modernities’; radically different from the prevalent classical theories of modernisation and convergence of industrial societies. To understand China’s trajectory of future development has been a major issue in international affairs. This book is concerned with how China’s hybridised identities are articulated, and intertwined with situational, institutional, and societal dynamics – and how they are interwoven with China’s international outlook which converges with or diverges from China’s historical assumptions and beliefs. This book will be of interest to those studying China’s identity in the media; situated at the juncture of past, present, and future, and between China and the wider world. The chapters in this book were originally published in Critical Arts.

In the context of the global #MeToo movement, China has come a long way, but little itis known by the outside world because of the way news is controlled by the communistgovernment. The purpose of this study is to aide in building more effective strategies for activistsinvolved in the Chinese #MeToo movement to work with media. It is my hope that thesefindings will offer a model for U.S. audiences, especially activists in the U.S. #MeToomovement, to better understand the U.S. medias coverage of gender relations and feminism inChina. This study utilized both content analysis and critical discourse analysis (CDA) to analyzeChinese and U.S. news coverage quantitatively and qualitatively. There are three hypotheses:1. Chinese news coverage of the Chinese #MeToo movement will be more conservative and willreflect patriarchal tendencies; 2. The presence of an anticommunist framework will be dominantin the U.S. coverage of the Chinese #MeToo movement; 3. Chinese news media coverage ofChinas #MeToo movement will focus more on events rather than analysis and interpretationof these events. The result shows that the former two hypotheses could be demonstrated but thelast one is difficult to be examined.

"Zhang's book focuses on the analysis of the socio-historical context, linguistic patterns of discursive construction, and media representations of the "Chinese Dream" in Mainland China, Hong Kong and the United States. Analysing data from the Chinese leader's speeches, and articles from China Daily, South China Morning Post and The New York Times, the author provides insights into the understanding of contemporary Chinese society through a critical discourse analysis of the "Chinese Dream" and its mediatized construction. Focusing on the discursive construction, the book examines the Chinese leader Xi Jinping's narratives on the "Chinese Dream" from multidimensional perspectives, such as thematic representations, discursive strategies and narrative frames, which emphasise the overall structure of the "Chinese Dream" as a political discourse. Methodologically, Zhang combines a discourse-historical approach, corpus linguistics and framing analysis into a complementary framework, which draws merits from the three approaches. This innovative research volume will be of interest to academics, researchers and students in the fields of discourse analysis, political research, Chinese politics and East Asian studies"--

This book presents original research from academics in China and the west, showing theoretical, methodological and practical dimensions between news media and discourse. The book focuses on Chinese news discourse by examining what new modern features it demonstrates in contrast and comparison to news discourses in other countries.

This study compares the news coverage of the third U.S-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S & ED) by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and China Daily from May 8 to 11, 2011. By examining how Chinese and American newspapers report the same event differently, the study aims to uncover the reasons behind the difference from the perspective of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). Based on the three-dimensional model of Fairclough, together with Halliday's systemic functional grammar (SFG) as an analytic tool, a detailed and specific exploration of the news discourse was conducted so as to find the hidden ideologies from the different perspectives of the three newspapers. The present study conducts a qualitative analysis. During the research, CDA was found helpful to reveal the correlation between language, power, and hidden ideologies, namely, how language reflects power and ideology, or how the latter influence language.