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Research paper thumbnail of Visual propaganda in chinese central and local news agencies: a douyin case study

humanities and social sciences communications , 2024

This study examines short videos sourced from the Douyin accounts of Chinese central and local ne... more This study examines short videos sourced from the Douyin accounts of Chinese central and local news agencies spanning the period from 2018 to 2023, aiming to shed light on the dynamics of visual propaganda within social media and short-form video content. A comprehensive analysis of 2852 short videos was undertaken, focusing on prevalent themes, visual motifs, and emotional persuasion techniques. The results delineate a divergence in focus between central and local news agencies: while the former prioritizes content related to the military, police, and firefighting, the latter emphasizes “livelihood warmth” topics. Central agencies predominantly feature soldiers, police officers, and firefighters, whereas local agencies portray individuals devoid of explicit political affiliations alongside other influencers. Emotional scrutiny unveils a contrast in strategies, with central agencies predominantly evoking emotions such as anger, disgust, fear, and intolerance, while local agencies employ anticipation, acceptance, and respect. This investigation underscores the profound influence of political authority within China’s propaganda framework, shaping both the substance and emotional resonance of political short videos within a hierarchical paradigm.

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Research paper thumbnail of The softening of Chinese digital propaganda: Evidence from the People's Daily Weibo account during the pandemic

Frontier in Psychology , 2023

Social media infuses modern relationships with vitality and brings a series of information dissem... more Social media infuses modern relationships with vitality and brings a series of information dissemination with subjective consciousness. Studies have indicated that official Chinese media channels are transforming their communication style from didactic hard persuasion to softened emotional management in the digital era. However, previous studies have rarely provided valid empirical evidence for the communicational transformation. The study fills the gap by providing a longitudinal time-series analysis to reveal the pattern of communication of Chinese digital Chinese official media from 2019 to 2022. The study crawler collected 43,259 posts from the People's Daily's Weibo account from 2019 to 2021. The study analyzed the textual data with using trained artificial intelligence models. This study explored the practices of the People's Daily's Weibo account from 2019 to 2021, COVID-19 is hardly normalized as it is still used as the justification for extraordinary measures in China. This study confirmed that People's Daily's Weibo account posts are undergoing softenization transformation, with the use of soft news, positive energy promotion, and the embedding of sentiment. Although the outburst of COVID-19 temporarily increased the media's use of hard news, it only occur at the initial stage of the pandemic. Emotional posts occupy a nonnegligible amount of the People's Daily Weibo content. However, the majority of posts are emotionally neutral and contribute to shaping the authoritative image of the party press. Overall, the People's Daily has softened their communication style on digital platforms and used emotional mobilization, distraction, and timely information provision to balance the political logic of building an authoritative media agency and the media logic of constructing audience relevance.

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Research paper thumbnail of International Broadcasting During Times of Conflict A Comparison of China s and Russia s Communication Strategies

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Research paper thumbnail of Cyber-Nationalism in China: Popular Discourse on China's Belt Road

China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has been the focus of much debate among academia for eight... more China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has been the focus of much debate among academia for eight years since 2013. There are mixed opinions about the BRI for political and economic purposes. Some believe that BRI has a significant impact on geopolitics, such as a shift in Chinese foreign policy towards globalism. According to those who support it, the BRI is the most important economic policy for China in the twenty-first century and at the same time represents a new idea of globalization, based on cooperation instead of a sharp competition (Chandan & Christiansen, 2019). Arase (2015) suggests that with the help of the BRI, China and

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Research paper thumbnail of When Nationalism Encounters the COVID-19 Pandemic: Understanding Chinese Nationalism From Media Use and Media Trust

Global Society, 2022

COVID-19, as a major public health crisis, has triggered nationalism to different degrees all aro... more COVID-19, as a major public health crisis, has triggered nationalism to different degrees all around the world. This study utilises an online survey to explore the relationships between media use, media trust, and nationalism in China during the COVID-19 pandemic. We found that the level of nationalism was still considerably high in China at the time of the pandemic and that the role of the media in nation-state building enterprises remains significant. It becomes more pervasive after the news media's adoption of digitalisation. Our study argues that contemporary China's expression of nationalism is socially constructed by media and rooted in its Chinese Confucian culture. Meanwhile, the Chinese government is increasingly designing the news media and manages social media. It has already successfully constructed a sense of nationalism to facilitate its own interests in response to the national crisis. This has led nationalism being embodied in the media's constructed social reality.

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Research paper thumbnail of When Nationalism Encounters the COVID-19 Pandemic: Understanding Chinese Nationalism From Media Use and Media Trust

Global Society, 2022

COVID-19, as a major public health crisis, has triggered nationalism to different degrees all aro... more COVID-19, as a major public health crisis, has triggered nationalism to different degrees all around the world. This study utilises an online survey to explore the relationships between media use, media trust, and nationalism in China during the COVID-19 pandemic. We found that the level of nationalism was still considerably high in China at the time of the pandemic and that the role of the media in nation-state building enterprises remains significant. It becomes more pervasive after the news media's adoption of digitalisation. Our study argues that contemporary China's expression of nationalism is socially constructed by media and rooted in its Chinese Confucian culture. Meanwhile, the Chinese government is increasingly designing the news media and manages social media. It has already successfully constructed a sense of nationalism to facilitate its own interests in response to the national crisis. This has led nationalism being embodied in the media's constructed social reality.

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Research paper thumbnail of China’s “Weaponized” Vaccine: Intertwining Between International and Domestic Politics

East Asia (Piscataway, N.j.), 2022

Ever since China has formally joined the WHO-backed global COVID-19 vaccine initiative known as C... more Ever since China has formally joined the WHO-backed global COVID-19 vaccine initiative known as COVAX, there is a presumed notion that China’s vaccine diplomacy will make a significant contribution to the international public good and thus uplift Beijing’s role as the rule-maker of international order. To scrutinize this, the paper asks if China succeeded in proliferating its weaponized vaccine policy to obtain maximum diplomatic gains and soft power projection to intensify its international image, geopolitical power, and domestic politico legitimacy. The authors argue that despite its vaccine diplomacy demonstrated the robust governance capacity and responsibility to be a great power. Yet, Beijing’s geopolitical influence and international image are significantly overrated and not enough to play a more prominent role in the global power fulcrum/equilibrium. On the contrary, China enjoys a leading position on the domestic political front. Its successful portrayal of China’s vaccine ...

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Research paper thumbnail of Media and Pollution in China: Mouthpiece or Watchdog?

The International Journal of Sustainability Policy and Practice, 2021

The media plays a vital role in spreading and communicating environmental issues to the public. I... more The media plays a vital role in spreading and communicating environmental issues to the public. It is widely accepted that China has become increasingly open toward environmental news. However, the Chinese media has long been understood to be the mouthpiece of the Chinese government. Social systems have the greatest power to influence news content in the hierarchical model. Hence, this article has assessed to what extent the news content on pollution in China is produced under the influence of social systems. This study concludes that the Chinese media coverage favors topics that are positive toward China, thus using more Chinese sources that tend to put a positive spin on new content by framing pollution as a natural and global problem. However, some local and commercial Chinese media and CCTV, to some extent, do have some free space to investigate pollution news and to criticize the government so long as it is not extremely politically sensitive. This article discusses the communist ideological forces in the social systems that have a huge impact on the news content in China. Another finding is that since the opening of the market in China, some of the commercial media is somewhat influenced by a liberal ideology and thus serves as a watchdog. This does not mean that the “Chinese government’s media control is dysfunctional.

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Research paper thumbnail of China’s Digital Nationalism: Search Engines and Online Encyclopedias

The Journal of Communication and Media Studies, 2020

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Research paper thumbnail of Digital Nationalism on Weibo on the 70th Chinese National Day

The Journal of Communication and Media Studies, 2020

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Research paper thumbnail of EU-China relations: through the narrative of China's media

Jurnal Studi Pemerintahan, 2021

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Research paper thumbnail of The media and think tanks in China: The construction and propagation of a think tank

Media Asia, 2021

With China's rapid growth as a regional and global power, think tanks in China have received ... more With China's rapid growth as a regional and global power, think tanks in China have received increasing attention from politicians and academics, mostly due to the achievements of academic and processing policies. Recently, collaborations between the media and think tanks have become increasingly tight. This article aims to explore China's think tank industry and their relationship with the media by interviewing two members of staff from one of China’s most prominent think tanks and observing the Institute for six months. This study has found that China’s think tanks have a close relationship with the government and the media. The traditional Chinese Confucian culture and the "bureaucracy-oriented tradition" have a significant role in the think tanks' political behavior. This leads the think tanks to play the role of being an advocate of the government. Although social media, to some extent, liberalizes the work style of China's think tanks, the think tanks...

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Research paper thumbnail of LIVRE MIREILLE VERSION 1 A formater (dragged)

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Research paper thumbnail of China's "Weaponized" Vaccine: Intertwining Between International and Domestic Politics

East Asia, 2022

Ever since China has formally joined the WHO-backed global COVID-19 vaccine initiative known as C... more Ever since China has formally joined the WHO-backed global COVID-19 vaccine initiative known as COVAX, there is a presumed notion that China's vaccine diplomacy will make a significant contribution to the international public good and thus uplift Beijing's role as the rule-maker of international order. To scrutinize this, the paper asks if China succeeded in proliferating its weaponized vaccine policy to obtain maximum diplomatic gains and soft power projection to intensify its international image, geopolitical power, and domestic politico legitimacy. The authors argue that despite its vaccine diplomacy demonstrated the robust governance capacity and responsibility to be a great power. Yet, Beijing's geopolitical influence and international image are significantly overrated and not enough to play a more prominent role in the global power fulcrum/equilibrium. On the contrary, China enjoys a leading position on the domestic political front. Its successful portrayal of China's vaccine provision in the global market and remarkable configuration to leverage a deep-rooted nationalism has fundamentally provided China with a powerful rationale to divert its public's attention from Beijing's earlier inadequate handling of the outbreak. The evaluation of the paper reveals that China's vaccine diplomacy's influence in promoting international image and geopolitics is limited but has successfully stabilized its domestic political environment and enhanced its domestic legitimacy.

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Research paper thumbnail of Media and Pollution in China: Mouthpiece or Watchdog?

The International Journal of Sustainability Policy and Practice, 2021

The media plays a vital role in spreading and communicating environmental issues to the public. I... more The media plays a vital role in spreading and communicating environmental issues to the public. It is widely accepted that China has become increasingly open toward environmental news. However, the Chinese media has long been understood to be the mouthpiece of the Chinese government. Social systems have the greatest power to influence news content in the hierarchical model. Hence, this article has assessed to what extent the news content on pollution in China is produced under the influence of social systems. This study concludes that the Chinese media coverage favors topics that are positive toward China, thus using more Chinese sources that tend to put a positive spin on new content by framing pollution as a natural and global problem. However, some local and commercial Chinese media and CCTV, to some extent, do have some free space to investigate pollution news and to criticize the government so long as it is not extremely politically sensitive. This article discusses the communist ideological forces in the social systems that have a huge impact on the news content in China. Another finding is that since the opening of the market in China, some of the commercial media is somewhat influenced by a liberal ideology and thus serves as a watchdog. This does not mean that the “Chinese government’s media control is dysfunctional.

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Research paper thumbnail of Migrant Children’s Acculturation in China: The Roles of Parent-Child Communication and Parent-Child Relationship

The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social and Community Studies, 2021

Due to the large number of internal migrant children in China, an ideal opportunity exists for sc... more Due to the large number of internal migrant children in China, an ideal opportunity exists for scholars to examine the influencing factors of their acculturation. Also, because of research gaps, this study aimed to examine whether parent-child communication and relationship could play a role in migrant children’s acculturation. In total, this study recruited sixty-five migrant children in Shenzhen and conducted an online survey to evaluate their level of acculturation as pertaining to parent-child communication and relationship issues. Through the regression analysis, this study determined that the different genders displayed diverse degrees of acculturation. For example, girls were more inclined to adapt to the new culture of their new city, while boys were more likely to retain their original cultural mores. Moreover, fathers tended to play a more significant role in children’s acculturation than mothers. Meanwhile, there appears to be no correlation between children’s acculturation and the parent-child relationship, while the parent- child relationship does have an impact on the level of children’s assimilation. This study also proffers that the process of children’s acculturation is changeable rather than fixed. Thus, parents should allot more time with their children in order to develop a positive line of communication with their children and focus more attention on their behavioral changes in the process of acculturation.

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Research paper thumbnail of EU-China Relations: Through the Narrative of China's Media

Journal of Government & Politics, 2021

China is the second-biggest trading partner of the European Union, and the EU is the biggest trad... more China is the second-biggest trading partner of the European Union, and the EU is the biggest trading partner of China. Hence, China adds EU have a close relationship. In this sense, it is vital to find the media perception of the EU and the political ideology behind their relationship. However, most of the existed studies explore China-EU relationship through their trade information, while ignore the role of Chinese media frame of EU. This study believe that China's official media frame offer a strong evidence to understand China-EU relationship. This article aims to examine China's official media perception of the EU by systematically examine the previous study. This study finds that Chinese media frame EU as an economic and political partner in a positive way but try to avoid mentioning the contradiction and friction, the selective negative issues are mainly for propaganda and conform to Chinese government attitude. Hence, this study discusses that Chinese official media follow the narrative of the Chinese government and reflect the EU-China relationship from the Chinese government perspective.

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Research paper thumbnail of The media and think tanks in China: The construction and propagation of a think tank

Media Asia, 2021

With China’s rapid growth as a regional and global power, think tanks in China have received incr... more With China’s rapid growth as a regional and global power, think tanks in China have received increasing attention from politicians and academics, mostly due to the achievements of academic and processing policies. Recently, collaborations between the media and think tanks have become increasingly tight. This article aims to explore China’s think tank industry and their relationship with the media by interviewing two members of staff from one of China’s most prominent think tanks and observing the Institute for six months. This study has found that China’s think tanks have a close relationship with the government and the media. The traditional Chinese Confucian culture and the "bureaucracy-oriented tradition" have a significant role in the think tanks’ political behavior. This leads the think tanks to play the role of being an advocate of the government. Although social media, to some extent, liberalizes the work style of China’s think tanks, the think tanks’ use of social media still follows the traditional media logic to facilitate the government’s interests. Overall, the study argues that Chinese think tanks show features of being a “Government-lead non-governmental organization" with a semi-official identity to complement the official authorities.

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Research paper thumbnail of China's BRI: Is it a Game Changer

Nepal’s Foreign Policy & Emerging Global Trends, 2020

This article aims to analyse the motivation, policy logic of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BR... more This article aims to analyse the motivation, policy logic of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and AIIB strategy, as well as, their influence on Russia. This paper finds that Chinese government aims to launch BRI and AIIB to solves domestic and international problems, meanwhile, the strategies also relate to the Chinese leader's ambition. Since BRI and AIIB are viewed as both new geopolitics and geo-economics strategies of China. Russia as China's neibour and another great power in the world is deeply influenced by BRI and AIIB, however, the paper argues that BRI and AIIB both has a positive and negative influence on Russia after analysing SIno-Russian relations, China's actions in Central Asia and the Arctic, and Russia's political demands.

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Research paper thumbnail of Digital Nationalism on Weibo on the 70th Chinese National Day

The Journal of Communication and Media Studies​ , 2020

China’s digital nationalism has been on the rise during the last decade. This article examines th... more China’s digital nationalism has been on the rise during the last decade. This article examines the digital nationalistic expression of solidarity and unity on China’s 70th National Day celebration in 2019. It conducted a qualitative content analysis of 500 posts regarding China’s National Day, which were posted on October 1, 2019, on Sina Weibo. This study finds that Chinese internet users employ textual and visual posts to express their pride and loyalty, thereby reflecting their Chinese identity, a call for national unity, and their best wishes for China’s bright future. This study suggests that Weibo offers a virtual “imagined community” for netizens to interact with national symbols to spontaneously strengthen a sense of national identity by highlighting the Chinese Communist Party’s achievements. The findings concluded that national identity is socially constructed, rather than being permanent. Moreover, the Internet facilitates a more liberating Chinese media system; however, digital media is also somehow influenced by the Chinese government’ s media logic, which helps to further disseminate the government’ s interests.

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Research paper thumbnail of Visual propaganda in chinese central and local news agencies: a douyin case study

humanities and social sciences communications , 2024

This study examines short videos sourced from the Douyin accounts of Chinese central and local ne... more This study examines short videos sourced from the Douyin accounts of Chinese central and local news agencies spanning the period from 2018 to 2023, aiming to shed light on the dynamics of visual propaganda within social media and short-form video content. A comprehensive analysis of 2852 short videos was undertaken, focusing on prevalent themes, visual motifs, and emotional persuasion techniques. The results delineate a divergence in focus between central and local news agencies: while the former prioritizes content related to the military, police, and firefighting, the latter emphasizes “livelihood warmth” topics. Central agencies predominantly feature soldiers, police officers, and firefighters, whereas local agencies portray individuals devoid of explicit political affiliations alongside other influencers. Emotional scrutiny unveils a contrast in strategies, with central agencies predominantly evoking emotions such as anger, disgust, fear, and intolerance, while local agencies employ anticipation, acceptance, and respect. This investigation underscores the profound influence of political authority within China’s propaganda framework, shaping both the substance and emotional resonance of political short videos within a hierarchical paradigm.

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Research paper thumbnail of The softening of Chinese digital propaganda: Evidence from the People's Daily Weibo account during the pandemic

Frontier in Psychology , 2023

Social media infuses modern relationships with vitality and brings a series of information dissem... more Social media infuses modern relationships with vitality and brings a series of information dissemination with subjective consciousness. Studies have indicated that official Chinese media channels are transforming their communication style from didactic hard persuasion to softened emotional management in the digital era. However, previous studies have rarely provided valid empirical evidence for the communicational transformation. The study fills the gap by providing a longitudinal time-series analysis to reveal the pattern of communication of Chinese digital Chinese official media from 2019 to 2022. The study crawler collected 43,259 posts from the People's Daily's Weibo account from 2019 to 2021. The study analyzed the textual data with using trained artificial intelligence models. This study explored the practices of the People's Daily's Weibo account from 2019 to 2021, COVID-19 is hardly normalized as it is still used as the justification for extraordinary measures in China. This study confirmed that People's Daily's Weibo account posts are undergoing softenization transformation, with the use of soft news, positive energy promotion, and the embedding of sentiment. Although the outburst of COVID-19 temporarily increased the media's use of hard news, it only occur at the initial stage of the pandemic. Emotional posts occupy a nonnegligible amount of the People's Daily Weibo content. However, the majority of posts are emotionally neutral and contribute to shaping the authoritative image of the party press. Overall, the People's Daily has softened their communication style on digital platforms and used emotional mobilization, distraction, and timely information provision to balance the political logic of building an authoritative media agency and the media logic of constructing audience relevance.

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Research paper thumbnail of International Broadcasting During Times of Conflict A Comparison of China s and Russia s Communication Strategies

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Research paper thumbnail of Cyber-Nationalism in China: Popular Discourse on China's Belt Road

China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has been the focus of much debate among academia for eight... more China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has been the focus of much debate among academia for eight years since 2013. There are mixed opinions about the BRI for political and economic purposes. Some believe that BRI has a significant impact on geopolitics, such as a shift in Chinese foreign policy towards globalism. According to those who support it, the BRI is the most important economic policy for China in the twenty-first century and at the same time represents a new idea of globalization, based on cooperation instead of a sharp competition (Chandan & Christiansen, 2019). Arase (2015) suggests that with the help of the BRI, China and

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Research paper thumbnail of When Nationalism Encounters the COVID-19 Pandemic: Understanding Chinese Nationalism From Media Use and Media Trust

Global Society, 2022

COVID-19, as a major public health crisis, has triggered nationalism to different degrees all aro... more COVID-19, as a major public health crisis, has triggered nationalism to different degrees all around the world. This study utilises an online survey to explore the relationships between media use, media trust, and nationalism in China during the COVID-19 pandemic. We found that the level of nationalism was still considerably high in China at the time of the pandemic and that the role of the media in nation-state building enterprises remains significant. It becomes more pervasive after the news media's adoption of digitalisation. Our study argues that contemporary China's expression of nationalism is socially constructed by media and rooted in its Chinese Confucian culture. Meanwhile, the Chinese government is increasingly designing the news media and manages social media. It has already successfully constructed a sense of nationalism to facilitate its own interests in response to the national crisis. This has led nationalism being embodied in the media's constructed social reality.

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Research paper thumbnail of When Nationalism Encounters the COVID-19 Pandemic: Understanding Chinese Nationalism From Media Use and Media Trust

Global Society, 2022

COVID-19, as a major public health crisis, has triggered nationalism to different degrees all aro... more COVID-19, as a major public health crisis, has triggered nationalism to different degrees all around the world. This study utilises an online survey to explore the relationships between media use, media trust, and nationalism in China during the COVID-19 pandemic. We found that the level of nationalism was still considerably high in China at the time of the pandemic and that the role of the media in nation-state building enterprises remains significant. It becomes more pervasive after the news media's adoption of digitalisation. Our study argues that contemporary China's expression of nationalism is socially constructed by media and rooted in its Chinese Confucian culture. Meanwhile, the Chinese government is increasingly designing the news media and manages social media. It has already successfully constructed a sense of nationalism to facilitate its own interests in response to the national crisis. This has led nationalism being embodied in the media's constructed social reality.

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Research paper thumbnail of China’s “Weaponized” Vaccine: Intertwining Between International and Domestic Politics

East Asia (Piscataway, N.j.), 2022

Ever since China has formally joined the WHO-backed global COVID-19 vaccine initiative known as C... more Ever since China has formally joined the WHO-backed global COVID-19 vaccine initiative known as COVAX, there is a presumed notion that China’s vaccine diplomacy will make a significant contribution to the international public good and thus uplift Beijing’s role as the rule-maker of international order. To scrutinize this, the paper asks if China succeeded in proliferating its weaponized vaccine policy to obtain maximum diplomatic gains and soft power projection to intensify its international image, geopolitical power, and domestic politico legitimacy. The authors argue that despite its vaccine diplomacy demonstrated the robust governance capacity and responsibility to be a great power. Yet, Beijing’s geopolitical influence and international image are significantly overrated and not enough to play a more prominent role in the global power fulcrum/equilibrium. On the contrary, China enjoys a leading position on the domestic political front. Its successful portrayal of China’s vaccine ...

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Research paper thumbnail of Media and Pollution in China: Mouthpiece or Watchdog?

The International Journal of Sustainability Policy and Practice, 2021

The media plays a vital role in spreading and communicating environmental issues to the public. I... more The media plays a vital role in spreading and communicating environmental issues to the public. It is widely accepted that China has become increasingly open toward environmental news. However, the Chinese media has long been understood to be the mouthpiece of the Chinese government. Social systems have the greatest power to influence news content in the hierarchical model. Hence, this article has assessed to what extent the news content on pollution in China is produced under the influence of social systems. This study concludes that the Chinese media coverage favors topics that are positive toward China, thus using more Chinese sources that tend to put a positive spin on new content by framing pollution as a natural and global problem. However, some local and commercial Chinese media and CCTV, to some extent, do have some free space to investigate pollution news and to criticize the government so long as it is not extremely politically sensitive. This article discusses the communist ideological forces in the social systems that have a huge impact on the news content in China. Another finding is that since the opening of the market in China, some of the commercial media is somewhat influenced by a liberal ideology and thus serves as a watchdog. This does not mean that the “Chinese government’s media control is dysfunctional.

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Research paper thumbnail of China’s Digital Nationalism: Search Engines and Online Encyclopedias

The Journal of Communication and Media Studies, 2020

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Research paper thumbnail of Digital Nationalism on Weibo on the 70th Chinese National Day

The Journal of Communication and Media Studies, 2020

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Research paper thumbnail of EU-China relations: through the narrative of China's media

Jurnal Studi Pemerintahan, 2021

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Research paper thumbnail of The media and think tanks in China: The construction and propagation of a think tank

Media Asia, 2021

With China's rapid growth as a regional and global power, think tanks in China have received ... more With China's rapid growth as a regional and global power, think tanks in China have received increasing attention from politicians and academics, mostly due to the achievements of academic and processing policies. Recently, collaborations between the media and think tanks have become increasingly tight. This article aims to explore China's think tank industry and their relationship with the media by interviewing two members of staff from one of China’s most prominent think tanks and observing the Institute for six months. This study has found that China’s think tanks have a close relationship with the government and the media. The traditional Chinese Confucian culture and the "bureaucracy-oriented tradition" have a significant role in the think tanks' political behavior. This leads the think tanks to play the role of being an advocate of the government. Although social media, to some extent, liberalizes the work style of China's think tanks, the think tanks...

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Research paper thumbnail of LIVRE MIREILLE VERSION 1 A formater (dragged)

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Research paper thumbnail of China's "Weaponized" Vaccine: Intertwining Between International and Domestic Politics

East Asia, 2022

Ever since China has formally joined the WHO-backed global COVID-19 vaccine initiative known as C... more Ever since China has formally joined the WHO-backed global COVID-19 vaccine initiative known as COVAX, there is a presumed notion that China's vaccine diplomacy will make a significant contribution to the international public good and thus uplift Beijing's role as the rule-maker of international order. To scrutinize this, the paper asks if China succeeded in proliferating its weaponized vaccine policy to obtain maximum diplomatic gains and soft power projection to intensify its international image, geopolitical power, and domestic politico legitimacy. The authors argue that despite its vaccine diplomacy demonstrated the robust governance capacity and responsibility to be a great power. Yet, Beijing's geopolitical influence and international image are significantly overrated and not enough to play a more prominent role in the global power fulcrum/equilibrium. On the contrary, China enjoys a leading position on the domestic political front. Its successful portrayal of China's vaccine provision in the global market and remarkable configuration to leverage a deep-rooted nationalism has fundamentally provided China with a powerful rationale to divert its public's attention from Beijing's earlier inadequate handling of the outbreak. The evaluation of the paper reveals that China's vaccine diplomacy's influence in promoting international image and geopolitics is limited but has successfully stabilized its domestic political environment and enhanced its domestic legitimacy.

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Research paper thumbnail of Media and Pollution in China: Mouthpiece or Watchdog?

The International Journal of Sustainability Policy and Practice, 2021

The media plays a vital role in spreading and communicating environmental issues to the public. I... more The media plays a vital role in spreading and communicating environmental issues to the public. It is widely accepted that China has become increasingly open toward environmental news. However, the Chinese media has long been understood to be the mouthpiece of the Chinese government. Social systems have the greatest power to influence news content in the hierarchical model. Hence, this article has assessed to what extent the news content on pollution in China is produced under the influence of social systems. This study concludes that the Chinese media coverage favors topics that are positive toward China, thus using more Chinese sources that tend to put a positive spin on new content by framing pollution as a natural and global problem. However, some local and commercial Chinese media and CCTV, to some extent, do have some free space to investigate pollution news and to criticize the government so long as it is not extremely politically sensitive. This article discusses the communist ideological forces in the social systems that have a huge impact on the news content in China. Another finding is that since the opening of the market in China, some of the commercial media is somewhat influenced by a liberal ideology and thus serves as a watchdog. This does not mean that the “Chinese government’s media control is dysfunctional.

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Research paper thumbnail of Migrant Children’s Acculturation in China: The Roles of Parent-Child Communication and Parent-Child Relationship

The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social and Community Studies, 2021

Due to the large number of internal migrant children in China, an ideal opportunity exists for sc... more Due to the large number of internal migrant children in China, an ideal opportunity exists for scholars to examine the influencing factors of their acculturation. Also, because of research gaps, this study aimed to examine whether parent-child communication and relationship could play a role in migrant children’s acculturation. In total, this study recruited sixty-five migrant children in Shenzhen and conducted an online survey to evaluate their level of acculturation as pertaining to parent-child communication and relationship issues. Through the regression analysis, this study determined that the different genders displayed diverse degrees of acculturation. For example, girls were more inclined to adapt to the new culture of their new city, while boys were more likely to retain their original cultural mores. Moreover, fathers tended to play a more significant role in children’s acculturation than mothers. Meanwhile, there appears to be no correlation between children’s acculturation and the parent-child relationship, while the parent- child relationship does have an impact on the level of children’s assimilation. This study also proffers that the process of children’s acculturation is changeable rather than fixed. Thus, parents should allot more time with their children in order to develop a positive line of communication with their children and focus more attention on their behavioral changes in the process of acculturation.

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Research paper thumbnail of EU-China Relations: Through the Narrative of China's Media

Journal of Government & Politics, 2021

China is the second-biggest trading partner of the European Union, and the EU is the biggest trad... more China is the second-biggest trading partner of the European Union, and the EU is the biggest trading partner of China. Hence, China adds EU have a close relationship. In this sense, it is vital to find the media perception of the EU and the political ideology behind their relationship. However, most of the existed studies explore China-EU relationship through their trade information, while ignore the role of Chinese media frame of EU. This study believe that China's official media frame offer a strong evidence to understand China-EU relationship. This article aims to examine China's official media perception of the EU by systematically examine the previous study. This study finds that Chinese media frame EU as an economic and political partner in a positive way but try to avoid mentioning the contradiction and friction, the selective negative issues are mainly for propaganda and conform to Chinese government attitude. Hence, this study discusses that Chinese official media follow the narrative of the Chinese government and reflect the EU-China relationship from the Chinese government perspective.

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Research paper thumbnail of The media and think tanks in China: The construction and propagation of a think tank

Media Asia, 2021

With China’s rapid growth as a regional and global power, think tanks in China have received incr... more With China’s rapid growth as a regional and global power, think tanks in China have received increasing attention from politicians and academics, mostly due to the achievements of academic and processing policies. Recently, collaborations between the media and think tanks have become increasingly tight. This article aims to explore China’s think tank industry and their relationship with the media by interviewing two members of staff from one of China’s most prominent think tanks and observing the Institute for six months. This study has found that China’s think tanks have a close relationship with the government and the media. The traditional Chinese Confucian culture and the "bureaucracy-oriented tradition" have a significant role in the think tanks’ political behavior. This leads the think tanks to play the role of being an advocate of the government. Although social media, to some extent, liberalizes the work style of China’s think tanks, the think tanks’ use of social media still follows the traditional media logic to facilitate the government’s interests. Overall, the study argues that Chinese think tanks show features of being a “Government-lead non-governmental organization" with a semi-official identity to complement the official authorities.

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Research paper thumbnail of China's BRI: Is it a Game Changer

Nepal’s Foreign Policy & Emerging Global Trends, 2020

This article aims to analyse the motivation, policy logic of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BR... more This article aims to analyse the motivation, policy logic of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and AIIB strategy, as well as, their influence on Russia. This paper finds that Chinese government aims to launch BRI and AIIB to solves domestic and international problems, meanwhile, the strategies also relate to the Chinese leader's ambition. Since BRI and AIIB are viewed as both new geopolitics and geo-economics strategies of China. Russia as China's neibour and another great power in the world is deeply influenced by BRI and AIIB, however, the paper argues that BRI and AIIB both has a positive and negative influence on Russia after analysing SIno-Russian relations, China's actions in Central Asia and the Arctic, and Russia's political demands.

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Research paper thumbnail of Digital Nationalism on Weibo on the 70th Chinese National Day

The Journal of Communication and Media Studies​ , 2020

China’s digital nationalism has been on the rise during the last decade. This article examines th... more China’s digital nationalism has been on the rise during the last decade. This article examines the digital nationalistic expression of solidarity and unity on China’s 70th National Day celebration in 2019. It conducted a qualitative content analysis of 500 posts regarding China’s National Day, which were posted on October 1, 2019, on Sina Weibo. This study finds that Chinese internet users employ textual and visual posts to express their pride and loyalty, thereby reflecting their Chinese identity, a call for national unity, and their best wishes for China’s bright future. This study suggests that Weibo offers a virtual “imagined community” for netizens to interact with national symbols to spontaneously strengthen a sense of national identity by highlighting the Chinese Communist Party’s achievements. The findings concluded that national identity is socially constructed, rather than being permanent. Moreover, the Internet facilitates a more liberating Chinese media system; however, digital media is also somehow influenced by the Chinese government’ s media logic, which helps to further disseminate the government’ s interests.

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