One Rising China, Multiple Interpretations: China's 60th anniversary celebration through the lens of the world's printed media
What does a rising China mean to the world? While some countries take China as a salient threat, others regard China as their role model for development and governance. However, limited research has offered a systematic comparative analysis in this regard. China's spectacular celebration of its 60th anniversary uniquely showcased its increasing military might, mounting economic wealth and carefully-maintained mass support. Taking advantage of simultaneous worldwide news coverage of this all-in-one event, we scrutinize how different societies responded to a rising China. We find significant variance in the news coverage from 42 top printed media in 21 sampled societies. Moreover, these societies' political features affect their newspapers' reporting styles the most. This analysis significantly enriches our understanding of the rise of China.
Americans and the Rise of China as a World Power
The rapid ascendency of China has attracted considerable attention from American scholars, policymakers, and media. Yet what does the American public think about the rise of China as a world power? In this paper we use survey data collected by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and other organizations to explore the nature and causes of Americans' views. It turns out that most Americans are well aware of the rise of China. Some are apprehensive about that rise, chiefly for national security (rather than economic) reasons, and many favor a degree of off-shore ‘balancing’ of the sort that realists recommend. But few Americans want to actively work to limit the rise of China. Very few favor the use of troops to defend Taiwan. Very few favor a nuclear-armed Japan. Large majorities of Americans take stands more akin to those of neo-liberals than realist theorists, favoring cooperation and peaceful engagement with China.
Partisanship and professionalism: Hong Kong journalists in transition
Media partisanship and professionalism constitute substrata of the same ideological space. We conceptualize media ideology at epistemological ( weltanschauung) and method ological (practical and operative) levels. Based on a survey we found that epistemologically, media ideology exerts a substantial albeit uneven influence on Hong Kong journalists in the way they view the political transition now under way and the media role in it. At the method ological level, journalists tend to endorse the abstract goals of professional norms but diverge on the concrete ways and means of achieving those goals.