ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how China's pursuit of industrialist modernity is reflected in the portrayal of South Africa, by situating this portrayal in the ideological repositioning of pragmatic developmentalism. It focuses on the way in which such a developmentalist discourse is creating and is simultaneously shaped by a political structure that prioritises industrialism. The chapter seeks to understand how a party-state-sponsored developmentalism orients the society to industrialist modernity by producing new identities, relationships and a new system of knowledge and beliefs. It utilizes the TV programme as a case study which consists of two episodes entitled 'South Africa' within a nine-part China Central Television (CCTV) documentary series, BRICS Countries (jin zhuan zhi guo), which was broadcast in 2011. Applying a corpus linguistics-based critical discourse analysis, the chapter analyses the TV programme's discursive structure that conveys dominant messages to the audience.
