1. The image of the United States in the Chinese media: An examination of the evaluative component of framing
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He, Zhou, Xianhong, Chen, and Xing, Wu
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MASS media , *POLITICAL image , *INTERNATIONAL relations , *RECESSIONS , *ECONOMIC recovery , *BALANCE of power - Abstract
Abstract: This study examines the presentation of the image of the United States in 874 news stories carried in five Chinese newspapers – from a framing perspective. It has yielded four major findings: (1) the political image of the United States is presented by the Chinese press in a relatively balanced fashion, depicted as one that embodies contradictory attributes: positive and negative, strong but aggressive, democratic but hypocritical; (2) the economic image of the United States is presented as one that is undergoing a recession but full of hope in recovery; and (3) the social image is one that features “fair play with minor skirmishes”; and (4) the cultural image is one that is diverse, free, democratic, advanced in science and technology, but hegemonic and biased. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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- 2012
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