Watching the dragon: global television news about China

Willnat, Lars; Luo, Yunjuan

doi:10.1080/17544750.2011.594552

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“…In Australian and New Zealand print media, these issues have become more salient in recent years, but do not support some of the more exaggerated claims about waves of Chinese migrants or criminals moving to the islands. The salience rankings for these different issues are largely consistent with preliminary studies of television news about China in various nations (Willnat and Luo, 2011).…”

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What do newspapers make of China in the South Pacific?

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Seiler-Helmer

2012

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

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The purpose of this research note is to provide an empirical indication of how China's increasing role in the South Pacific has been presented in their own and other nations' media over the last 20 years. What is the tone of coverage? Which issues are salient? How does this vary by nation? What changes are there over time? This research note reports information derived from over 1000 articles published in Australasian, Asian and Pacific newspapers in the last 20 years. The findings demonstrate that nations dealing with 'China's rise' in the South Pacific are faced with a range of complex issues, which can produce ambivalent and mixed reactions. For instance, although the tone of Australian and New Zealand newspaper coverage of China's entry into their 'special patch' is, overall, more negative than positive, negativity is largely driven by coverage of China's diplomatic efforts in the region and geopolitical considerations. Other aspects of China's expanding role (e.g. economic and cultural aspects) are treated much more positively. Similarly, although the major focus of Pacific newspapers is on Chinese aid and economic impact, which are treated very positively, coverage of other issues can be negative.

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What do newspapers make of China in the South Pacific?

Sullivan

Seiler-Helmer

2012

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

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“…Akhavan-Majid & Ramaprasad, 2000;Goodman, 1999;Willnat & Luo, 2011), while some others used the other terms such as theme (e.g. Zhang & Cameron, 2003).…”

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“…If the axial coding, the categories (sub-frames and mid-level frames) were identified around which the idea units grouped together based on the similar themes (Corbin & Strauss, 1990). Previous studies on the Western media coverage of China (Willnat & Luo, 2011;Zhang & Cameron, 2003) were used as the reference schemes for this axial coding. Then, the author and another coder independently coded other 35 randomly selected (10.9% of news sample) news articles using the categories (sub-frames and mid-level frames) developed by the primary coder to find the content that cannot be coded by these categories.…”

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“…For example, Zhang and Cameron (2003) found that the US media reported China using many topics, including domestic politics, Taiwan Straits, international politics, domestic economics, international economy, defense/nuclear weapons/war crisis, disasters/unrest/terrorism, culture, science/ecology/technology, religion, law/crimes/corruption, population, sports, social service, welfare, and education. Willnat and Luo (2011) noted that US television news used the following frames to cover the topics and actors of China: internal politics, international politics, internal order, human interest, communication, transportation, labor/industry/business, culture, religion, sports, citizens, and health/ welfare. The broader choice of the topics about China would promote a more objective view of China (Ching, 1998).…”

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Assessing the media visibility of China’s President Xi Jinping’s first 3-year governance in The New York Times

Zhang

2016

Global Media and China

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This study assessed the media visibility, a composite measure of attention and prominence, of China's President Xi Jinping's first 3-year governance in The New York Times. The assessment was based on the content analysis of 317 news articles focusing on Chinese President. Qualitative content analysis was used to identify three major frames, 12 mid-level frames, and 18 subframes. Quantitative content analysis was used to measure the attention, prominence, and the combination of these two parameters of these frames. The findings showed that The New York Times employed multiple frames to report Chinese President, and the two frames with the highest media visibility are (Domestic) Campaigns and Strategies and China-United States (relations), rather than Human Rights. Keywords Attention, Chinese President, governance, media visibility, prominenceWith the rapid economic growth, China has become the second largest economy in the world and exerted increasing influence on global affairs. Several studies showed that Western media paid more attention on China and employed a much broader range of frames to report China than before (e.g.

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“…Few studies, however, have calculated the importance of the media in the generation of this representation patterns, and there's a particular shortage of research committed to documentaries as units of analysis. The existing tradition in media studies has usually had the objective of analysing the depiction of China in the press (Bennett 1990;Farmer 1990;Rand 1995;Yan 1998;Peng 2004;Huang & Chi Mei Leung 2005;Sparks 2010;Zhang, 2010;Wilke & Achatzi, 2011), television news (Seib & Powers 2010;Willnat & Luo 2011;Zhang 2011) and fiction films (Jones 1955;Berry 2006).…”

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Seeing the Other: the Depiction of China in British Documentary Films

Espinet

2014

JOMEC Journal

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The Western world has been contemplating China since the early times of Marco Polo. Recent and former researchers have approached East-West relationships and much attention has been paid to the Western portrayal of the country. However, little has been said about how Chinese culture has traditionally been depicted in audiovisual media and analysis of the images of China in documentary films is particularly scarce. From the first Attack on a China Mission (1900) to The dying rooms (1995), British filmmakers have portrayed China in many different ways. The aim of this paper is to outline general patterns of representation in documentary films on China produced in the UK, looking at some of the most outstanding films of the century. We find that positive and negative images of the country and the people have successively been on the screens and that the balance between them has traditionally depended more on international relationships between China and the UK, than on China's reality itself. Access to information and changes in the documentary production sector have proved to be determining too. More than ever before, our understanding of China is of crucial importance today, and the results of this paper show how media practices can either hinder or smooth the path to mutual comprehension. Contributor Note Gina Plana is a postgraduate student at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona where she works with a scholarship within the Research Group in Image, Sound and Synthesis. Between 2008 and 2012 she graduated in Audiovisual Communication, in Humanities and in East Asian Studies and has an M.A in Television Quality and Innovation and in Research in Contents in the Digital Age. She is currently finishing her dissertation focused on the image of China in contemporary British documentaries. Other areas of scientific interest are television programming, public service media, cultural studies, Chinese studies and documentary film.

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Watching the dragon: global television news about China

Cited by 22 publications

References 29 publications

What do newspapers make of China in the South Pacific?

What do newspapers make of China in the South Pacific?

Assessing the media visibility of China’s President Xi Jinping’s first 3-year governance in The New York Times

Seeing the Other: the Depiction of China in British Documentary Films

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