Foreign and domestic news content of Chinese television

The social construction of international imagery in the Post‐Cold War Era: A comparative analysis of U.S. and Chinese national TV news

“…Among the top 15 countries on CCTV, the United States was the most reported, accounting for 12.0% of the 415 stories. The result is in line with Warren's (1988) study, indicating the persistent prominence of news about the U.S. on Chinese national television. Japan was a distant second, followed by Yugoslavia, Russia, Hong Kong, the United Nations, Britain, Germany, Tunisia, Taiwan, South Africa, France, Israel, Ivory Coast, and Armenia, in that order.…”

“…Since its rapid development in the 1980s, television has increasingly become an intrinsic part of Chinese daily life (e.g., Hong, 1993;Lee, 1994;Warren, 1988). Like its counterpart on ABC, the CCTV newscast ¡s a 30-minute prime-time evening program.…”