ABSTRACT
China's Contemporary Image and Rhetoric Practice presents an overview of Chinese diplomatic rhetoric, exploring how the image of China is depicted through a Western lens and introducing a profound shift in domestic perspectives of this image. This reader reveals new sites for Chinese rhetoric to deepen scholarship in the relevant studies of Chinese literature, Chinese discourse analysis, Chinese sociology, Chinese politics and so on. These chapters have been cherry-picked for their contributions to the field, and may facilitate the expanding development of Chinese studies.
This book is a valuable reference for scholars, researchers and graduate or postgraduate students in Chinese linguistic and social studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|26 pages
Does title or content matter?
Examining China’s partnerships with text classification
chapter 3|41 pages
The language of ‘China threat’
A case study of the BBC television documentary series ‘The Chinese Are Coming’
chapter 6|26 pages
Analyzing and interpreting COVID-19-related texts in Chinese
A systemic functional perspective
chapter 7|29 pages
Chineseness in Bian Zhilin’s pre-war poetry
An exploration of utopian notion and New Poetry
