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Papers by Liang Pan
The study of public diplomacy often proceeds with an empirical approach, focusing on crafting pol... more The study of public diplomacy often proceeds with an empirical approach, focusing on crafting policy instruments and measuring policy efficiency. But this approach tends to render descriptive and quantitative results. This paper contextualizes public diplomacy in theoretical terms, institutional structure, and policy priority, and points out three common misconceptions in comparison of U.S.-China public diplomacy. It means to draw attention to normative and qualitative approaches that should be applied to the fledging interdisciplinary study of public diplomacy.
U.S. President Donald Trump paid his first state visit to China in November 2017. Despite the two... more U.S. President Donald Trump paid his first state visit to China in November 2017. Despite the two countries' rugged relations, political elites from both sides had to reach expedient political congeniality for this high-stake diplo-matic event. The state visit represented the best-case scenario in which the two adversarial countries could mutually conduct mediated public diplomacy. This article critically examines and compares Chinese and U.S. TV news discourse on the state visit in the supra-textual, verbal-textual, and visual modes. Conventional research suggests that external-relational factors, such as power hierarchy, cultural and political difference between countries affect mediated public diplomacy most. However, this article finds that China and the U.S.' domestic political-eco-nomic and societal-intuitional logics behind news production have a more definitive influence on the actualization of mediated public diplomacy. These distinct domestic logics defy the govern...
Journal of Global Politics and Current Diplomacy, 2020
U.S. President Donald Trump paid his first state visit to China in November 2017. Despite the two... more U.S. President Donald Trump paid his first state visit to China in November 2017. Despite the two countries' rugged relations, political elites from both sides had to reach expedient political congeniality for this high-stake diplomatic event. The state visit represented the best-case scenario in which the two adversarial countries could mutually conduct mediated public diplomacy. This article critically examines and compares Chinese and U.S. TV news discourse on the state visit in the supra-textual, verbal-textual, and visual modes. Conventional research suggests that external-relational factors, such as power hierarchy, cultural and political difference between countries affect mediated public diplomacy most. However, this article finds that China and the U.S.' domestic political-economic and societal-intuitional logics behind news production have a more definitive influence on the actualization of mediated public diplomacy. These distinct domestic logics defy the governments' foreign policy and lead to asymmetrical and futile public diplomacy results even in the best-case scenario.
Exchange: The Journal of Public Diplomacy, 2014
The study of public diplomacy often proceeds with an empirical approach, focusing on crafting pol... more The study of public diplomacy often proceeds with an empirical approach, focusing on crafting policy instruments and measuring policy efficiency. But this approach tends to render descriptive and quantitative results. This paper contextualizes public diplomacy in theoretical terms, institutional structure, and policy priority, and points out three common misconceptions in comparison of U.S.-China public diplomacy. It means to draw attention to normative and qualitative approaches that should be applied to the fledging interdisciplinary study of public diplomacy.
Book Reviews by Liang Pan
International Journal of Communication , 2017
The study of public diplomacy often proceeds with an empirical approach, focusing on crafting pol... more The study of public diplomacy often proceeds with an empirical approach, focusing on crafting policy instruments and measuring policy efficiency. But this approach tends to render descriptive and quantitative results. This paper contextualizes public diplomacy in theoretical terms, institutional structure, and policy priority, and points out three common misconceptions in comparison of U.S.-China public diplomacy. It means to draw attention to normative and qualitative approaches that should be applied to the fledging interdisciplinary study of public diplomacy.
U.S. President Donald Trump paid his first state visit to China in November 2017. Despite the two... more U.S. President Donald Trump paid his first state visit to China in November 2017. Despite the two countries' rugged relations, political elites from both sides had to reach expedient political congeniality for this high-stake diplo-matic event. The state visit represented the best-case scenario in which the two adversarial countries could mutually conduct mediated public diplomacy. This article critically examines and compares Chinese and U.S. TV news discourse on the state visit in the supra-textual, verbal-textual, and visual modes. Conventional research suggests that external-relational factors, such as power hierarchy, cultural and political difference between countries affect mediated public diplomacy most. However, this article finds that China and the U.S.' domestic political-eco-nomic and societal-intuitional logics behind news production have a more definitive influence on the actualization of mediated public diplomacy. These distinct domestic logics defy the govern...
Journal of Global Politics and Current Diplomacy, 2020
U.S. President Donald Trump paid his first state visit to China in November 2017. Despite the two... more U.S. President Donald Trump paid his first state visit to China in November 2017. Despite the two countries' rugged relations, political elites from both sides had to reach expedient political congeniality for this high-stake diplomatic event. The state visit represented the best-case scenario in which the two adversarial countries could mutually conduct mediated public diplomacy. This article critically examines and compares Chinese and U.S. TV news discourse on the state visit in the supra-textual, verbal-textual, and visual modes. Conventional research suggests that external-relational factors, such as power hierarchy, cultural and political difference between countries affect mediated public diplomacy most. However, this article finds that China and the U.S.' domestic political-economic and societal-intuitional logics behind news production have a more definitive influence on the actualization of mediated public diplomacy. These distinct domestic logics defy the governments' foreign policy and lead to asymmetrical and futile public diplomacy results even in the best-case scenario.
Exchange: The Journal of Public Diplomacy, 2014
The study of public diplomacy often proceeds with an empirical approach, focusing on crafting pol... more The study of public diplomacy often proceeds with an empirical approach, focusing on crafting policy instruments and measuring policy efficiency. But this approach tends to render descriptive and quantitative results. This paper contextualizes public diplomacy in theoretical terms, institutional structure, and policy priority, and points out three common misconceptions in comparison of U.S.-China public diplomacy. It means to draw attention to normative and qualitative approaches that should be applied to the fledging interdisciplinary study of public diplomacy.