Representation of China and the United States in Africa in Online Global News

Paterson, Chris; Nothias, Toussaint

doi:10.1111/cccr.12133

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“…As a result of the burgeoning relations between China and Africa, academic publications on how China and Africa appear and perceive each other in the media have flourished. These include explorations of Chinese media (Shen 2009;Li and Rønning 2013), African media (Wasserman 2012;Skjerdal and Gusu 2016), Western media (Mawdsley 2008), as well as media from a variety of countries (Benabdallah 2015;Paterson and Nothias 2016).…”

Section: China-africa 'Mediated Relationships': Suggesting An Audiovimentioning

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Making space for emotions: exploring China–Africa ‘mediated relationships’ through CCTV-9’s documentaryAfrican Chronicles(Feizhou jishi非洲纪事)

Puppin

2017

Journal of African Cultural Studies

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This article explores how the image of China 'as engaged with Africa' is promoted within China, by looking at a State-sanctioned, Chinese-language media text targeting the domestic audience. It first proposes two paradigm shifts: in the direction adopted in investigating China's soft-power, and in the dimension considered in exploring China-Africa media interactions. After reviewing the relevant existing literature, it introduces African Chronicles (Feizhou jishi 非洲纪事), a TV documentary screened by CCTV-9 in 2011, and carries out a social semiotic analysis of the first episode, A Journey through Memory (Jiyi zhilü 记忆之旅). The analysis reveals that the storytelling of Prof. Ge, the protagonist, is instrumental in reminding the audience of the old rhetoric of the revolutionary years; it also serves the function of dismissing its adaptability to the contemporary postsocialist era, characterized by a less explicit political engagement and the prominence of economic interests. More importantly, this article illustrates that what unites China and Africa in this episode is the 'emotional bond', in its different variations, which has the power to stand the test of time and shorten both a physical and an emotional distance through what Ahmed calls a 'narrative of love' (The Cultural Politics of Emotion, 2004).

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Section: China-africa 'Mediated Relationships': Suggesting An Audiovimentioning

confidence: 99%

Making space for emotions: exploring China–Africa ‘mediated relationships’ through CCTV-9’s documentaryAfrican Chronicles(Feizhou jishi非洲纪事)

Puppin

2017

Journal of African Cultural Studies

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“…This study analyzes articles and editorials published in Kenyan newspapers owned by the Nation Media Group (NMG)—specifically, Daily Nation , Sunday Nation , and The East African . News media have been studied as one of the main sites for the construction and manipulation of perceptions regarding the China‐Africa relationship (Paterson & Nothias, 2016; Wu & van Staden, 2018), and the Daily Nation along with its Sunday edition is one of the highest circulating newspapers in Kenya, while The East African seeks to address a broader regional audience. Most studies of news media representations of the China‐Africa relationship are focused on discerning positive and negative discourses.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Kenya's regional ambitions or China's Belt‐and‐Road? News media representations of the Mombasa‐Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway

Basu

Janiec

2020

Singap J Trop Geogr

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Kenya's Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), and its construction and financing by China, exemplifies the prominence accorded to mega‐infrastructural projects in contemporary economic development, as well as the dependence this has engendered on external loans. Alongside, multiple geographies intertwine in the SGR which is both a component of China's global ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ (BRI), as well as an East African regional link between coastal Kenya and neighbouring landlocked countries. In most popular and academic analyses, the role of China is emphasized over the SGR's positioning within East Africa. Does this then lead to an undermining of the meanings that are attached to the SGR within Kenya? This article seeks to add Kenyan perspectives to the debate over China's infrastructural loans by examining the range of news media discourses that have emerged around the SGR. Utilizing the theoretical lens of South‐South cooperation and African agency, this study analyzes how material infrastructure becomes meaningful within the context of a political superstructure. For Kenya, this political superstructure is shaped not only by Kenya‐China relations, but also by infrastructural competitions within East Africa, as well as within Kenya itself.

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“…China and the United States both invest heavily in development, in many guises, and both superpowers portray their engagements across Africa as welcome, collaborative and benign. But global media generally present a narrative of a predatory China and a supportive United States (Paterson and Nothias, 2016). Chinese media, though, present the country as champion of the South, using, as authors in this issue demonstrate, a public relations machinery that is second to none – reacting efficiently to every perceived slight and hammering the ‘win–win’ message at every turn.…”

Section: Cold War the Sequel?mentioning

confidence: 99%