China, Media, and International Conflicts

This book focuses on China’s media diplomacy and its interplay with a range of international conflicts. It assesses the representation and framing of China, as well as the perception and reception of China’s media communication in relation to various crises and conflicts. Including detailed analyses of many cases, it highlights the complex, fluid and dynamic relationship between media and conflict, and discusses how this both exemplifies and also affects China’s relations with the outside world. In addition, in contrast to most existing studies of mediatized conflict in the digital age, it provides a very valuable non-Western perspective.

Studying media-conflict relationship through the lens of China ALTMAN YUZHU PENG AND SHIXIN IVY ZHANG Strategy-framing of International Conflicts: A Multi-dimensional Framework for Transnational Comparative Content Analysis SHUJUN LIU AND MARK BOUKES Media type and framing of the Sino-US Trade War An analysis of articles from party and nonparty news organizations in China XIANWEN KUANG Soft Power Clashes? China in Platform Geopolitics: Global Aspirations and Political Struggles ALESSANDRA MASSA AND GIUSEPPE ANZERA Competing narratives of the Uyghur-Han conflicts and China-West geopolitical rivalries CHI ZHANG The politics of remembering: commemorating the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea in an era of China-US rivalry YIBEN MA AND CHI ZHANG The Domain of the State: Interpreting the 2012 Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands Disputes at Liberal oriented Chinese Commercial Newspapers TIANTIAN DIAO How is NATO viewed in China? NATO’s strategic communication and perceptions of Zhihu users SHIXIN IVY ZHANG, ALTMAN YUZHU PENG AND RANNA HUANG Indian media’s China dilemma Sino-India 2020 face-off through the lens of Indian press: Analysis of editorials SUHAIL AHMAD China’s Overlooked Role in the Syrian Crisis SELIM ÖTERBÜLBÜL Mediatized Representation: Palestinian Online News Framing of China’s Positions on the Question of Palestine (2020-2021) SHADI ABU-AYYASH Reimagining western media portrayals of China: U.S. and Ghanaian coverage of China’s Covid-19 response KELLY CHERNIN

Shixin Ivy Zhang is an Associate Professor in Journalism Studies at University of Nottingham Ningbo, China Altman Yuzhu Peng is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick, UK