China’s Contemporary Image and Rhetoric Practice - China’s Contemporary Image and Rhetoric Practice -

Does title or content matter?: Examining China’s partnerships with text classification China’s partnerships: title or content?Empirical findings Words associated with a topic Estimated effect of partnerships’ titles on issue distribution Estimated effect of partnership treaties Conclusion References Critical discourse analysis of 2010 China–US trade dispute in the headlines of Western newsmagazines Research design and methods Selection of the newsmagazines Time period under study Purposive-representative sampling CDA application I: Van Dijk’s macro-rules Analytical procedures: deriving the topics of headlines CDA application II: Van Leeuwen’s socio-semantic inventory Inclusion and exclusion Role allocation Functionalisation, identification, and appraisement Association and dissociation Personalisation and impersonalisation Analytical procedures: representation of social actors Analysis of American perspective (Time)Macro-rules Inclusion and exclusion Role allocation: activation and passivation Functionalisation, identification and appraisement Association and dissociation Personalisation and impersonalisation Analysis of British perspective (The Economist)Macro-rules Inclusion and exclusion Role allocation: activation and passivation Association and dissociation Personalisation and impersonalisation Analysis of French perspective (L’Express)Macro-rules Inclusion and exclusion Role allocation: activation and passivation Functionalisation, identification and appraisement Association and dissociation Personalisation and impersonalisation Analysis of German perspective (Der Spiegel)Macro-rule Inclusion and exclusion Role allocation: activation and passivation Functionalisation, identification and appraisement Association and dissociation Personalisation and impersonalisation Conclusion References The language of ‘China threat’: A case study of the BBC television documentary series ‘The Chinese Are Coming’Contextual background The storyline The production features The sketch of China’s role in Africa Analysis Visual language: image analysis China threat: the exploiter of natural resources China threat: the wild animal killer China threat: the human rights violator China threat: the unfair competitor and trader China threat: the mouthpiece of the Communist Party China threat: the military threat Verbal language: textual analysis Language analysis at rhetoric level Language analysis at sentence level Language analysis at vocabulary level Sound effects and lighting as multi-modes Conclusion References Digital media, governance, and the making of youth in contemporary China Digital media as technology of governance Produce 101 as cultivation of collective moralities Survival of the kindest: individual aims and collective good The China Dream as millennial aspirations Conclusions: new people for a new era References Investigating the discursive construction of traditional Chinese medicine on Chinese national media Situating TCM within discourse studies Data and methodology Methodology Analysis and discussion Key word analysis Concordance analysis A national treasure of China with unique identity A partnership between TCM and MWM A national treasure becoming international Social and cultural interpretation Conclusion Abbreviations used in this chapter References Analyzing and interpreting COVID-19-related texts in Chinese: A systemic functional perspective Systemic Functional Linguistics as appliable linguistics COVID-19-related texts in Chinese as instances in the strata of semantics Approaching COVID-19-related Chinese texts from field Texts of semiotic processes Texts of semiotic processes potentially leading to social processes Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Chineseness in Bian Zhilin’s pre-war poetry: An exploration of utopian notion and New Poetry The utopian notion and its relevance in Bian Zhilin’s pre-war poetry and New Poetry Metaphysical solitude vs. fin de siècle decadence in Bian’s poetic image of autumn Dusk in autumn: the classical sorrow of ganshi youguo (感时忧国), youchan weiji (忧谗畏讥) and the beauty of passive virtue (弱德之美)Style and ambience: imagination of classical Chineseness The source and meaning of private symbols in Bian’s pre-war poetry Sensibility in Bian’s pre-war poetry: a Chinese ‘child’ of Symbolism and Metaphysicalism The Chinese self in xiangchou utopia Imagination of self, time and the motif xiangchou in ‘Chi Ba’A homophony of despair: xiangchou and utopia in China ‘O Return’: the lyrical construction of xiangchou utopia in search of inner peace Conclusion: Xiangchou and the backward-looking utopia in New Poetry Bibliography Rhetoric in Chinese patriotic translators’ discourse fuelled by the translating of foreign literature Chinese patriotic translators’ rhetoric The Rhetoric Model of Translation Lin Shu (林纾): monolinguistic translator Yan Fu (严复): scholarly translator Concluding remarks References