1st Edition

Chinese News Discourse in the Digital Era Intersections of Political Communication and Translation

214 Pages 52 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In the fast-evolving age of digitalization and Artificial Intelligence (AI), news discourse plays a pivotal role in shaping cultural and political narratives and public understanding of significant global events by disseminating meaning that is constructed, contested, and reinterpreted by news workers and audiences. Chinese News Discourse in the Digital Era unpacks how meaning is generated and... Read more

1 Introduction to Chinese News Discourse in the Digital era

Shixin Ivy Zhang and Zhen Troy Chen

 

2 Geopolitical Allies or Adversaries? The Construction of Geopolitical Identity in Chinese Media’s Coverage of the Russia-Ukraine War

Zixiu Liu and Stephen Goulding

 

3 Media Type and News Framing across Issues: A Comparative Perspective

Xianwen Kuang 

 

4 Cooperation or Competition? Political Narratives of US-China High-level Exchanges

Jintao Zhang and Wei Wang

 

5 News Frames as Identity Work: How Chinese and Australian News Media Construct State Identities through the Belt and Road Initiative

Yue Jiang

 

6 Media systems in Hong Kong and the Mainland of China: A corpus-assisted comparative analysis of news reports from China Daily and The Standard on the Shanghai COVID-19 lockdown

Wenjian Li

 

7 Intermedia agenda setting: A case study of journalistic quotations about COVID-19

Weijian Huang and Nancy Xiuzhi Liu

 

8 Aligning Academic Curriculum with the Evolving Digital Media Landscape: An Examination of Professional Competences for Trans-editors

Wan Hu and Yuxin Deng

 

9 Multimodal Reconstruction of Information in Audio-visual News Translation: A Case Study of Videos on Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)

Li Pan and Yuting Song

 

10 A Corpus-Based Approach to Chinese Diplomatic News Translation Pedagogy in the Digital Era

Zhiwei Han

Biography

Nancy Xiuzhi Liu is Associate Professor in Translation Studies at the School of Education and English, University of Nottingham Ningbo China.


Shixin Ivy Zhang is Full Professor in Journalism Studies at the School of International Communications, University of Nottingham Ningbo China.


Zhen Troy Chen is Associate Professor in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China.


Wan Hu is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Literary and Translation Studies at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China.


Weijian Huang is a fully funded PhD candidate at the University of Nottingham’s China and UK campuses.