Qing Cao

List of John Benjamins publications in which Qing Cao is involved.

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Discourse, Politics and Media in Contemporary China

Edited by Qing Cao, Hailong Tian and Paul Chilton

After three and a half decades of economic reforms, radical changes have occurred in all aspects of life in China. In an authoritarian society, these changes are mediated significantly through the power of language, carefully controlled by the political elites. Discourse, as a way of speaking and… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 54] 2014. vi, 213 pp. | open access

Cao, Qing 2022 The discourse of Xinmin: Mindset remodeling and nation-building in early twentieth-century China Media Language and Discourse in Cultural China, Wu, Doreen D., Ming Liu and David C.S. Li (eds.), pp. 122–142 | Article

Focusing on Liang Qichao’s campaign of national moral character reform, this article examines the discourse of xinmin (新民 new people) as a social engineering project that sought to remold the mindset and behaviors of the people a means of nation-building in the 1900s. Drawing on Koselleck’s idea… read more

Cao, Qing 2014 Chapter 7. China’s soft power: Formulations, contestations and communication Discourse, Politics and Media in Contemporary China, Cao, Qing, Hailong Tian and Paul Chilton (eds.), pp. 171–194 | Article

This chapter examines the discursive structure of ‘soft power’ in China, its cultural, historical and political backgrounds and the role the mass media play in mediating its meanings. Conceptualised within critical discourse analysis, this study assesses soft power discourse as a form of… read more

Cao, Qing 2014 Introduction: Legitimisation, resistance and discursive struggles in contemporary China Discourse, Politics and Media in Contemporary China, Cao, Qing, Hailong Tian and Paul Chilton (eds.), pp. 1–22 | Article

‘Without legitimacy, words are invalid; invalid words lead man to nowhere’.(名不正则言不顺，言不顺则事不成。Mingbuzheng zhe yanbushun; yanbushun zhe shibucheng) Confucius (The Analects)‘Truth’ is to be understood as a system of ordered procedures for the production, regulation, distribution, circulation and… read more

Cao, Qing 2012 The re-imagined West in Chinese television: A case study of the CCTV documentary series the Rise of the Great Powers Discourse and Socio-political Transformations in Contemporary China, Chilton, Paul, Hailong Tian and Ruth Wodak (eds.), pp. 127–144 | Article

This chapter examines television portrayals of the West in contemporary China, focusing on an emerging non-victimistic media discourse on modern Western history. The analysis is contextualized within the wider sociopolitical dynamics of a rising nationalism and increased space for negotiation among… read more

Cao, Qing 2012 Modernity and media portrayals of China Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 22:1, pp. 1–21 | Article

China’s image in the Western media has long been a contentious issue. Many previous studies have focused on what images are constructed but few have examined how those images are generated. This article aims to address this issue by exploring cultural foundations of Western representations of China. read more

Cao, Qing 2010 The re-imagined West in Chinese television: A case study of the CCTV documentary series the Rise of the Great Powers Discourse and Socio-Political Transformations in Contemporary China, Chilton, Paul, Hailong Tian and Ruth Wodak (eds.), pp. 615–633 | Article

This paper examines television portrayals of the West in contemporary China, focusing on an emerging non-victimistic media discourse on modern Western history. The analysis is contextualized within the wider sociopolitical dynamics of a rising nationalism and increased space for negotiation among… read more