| At present,with the rise of climate risk as a global public issue,the issue of climate change has surpassed the natural ecological propositions that people have perceived in the past,and has become a major political,economic,and diplomatic proposition concerning national interests,foreign exchanges,and national image.As climate change issues enter the international political and diplomatic discourse system,and China's important position in global climate governance is increasingly prominent,in the complex global climate change public opinion environment,climate issues have become an important area that affects and shapes China's national image,which directly affects national politics,economy,foreign exchanges and international public opinion.Climate change has opened up a new perspective for the shaping of China's national image,and has put forward new requirements and given new content.The study based on the geopolitical nature of the climate change issue and the global perspective,carryies out research on the construction of China's national image in the foreign paper media on China's climate change across geopolitical regions.Based on the LexisNexis? Academic news database,the study establishes “Foreign Paper Media on China Climate Change Report Corpus(2007-2017)” across geopolitical regions,using a combination of corpus and discourse analysis,social network analysis,bibliometric analysis,and content analysis,and based on the research idea of "Who is shaping China"-"How to Shape China"-"What kind of Chinese national image is presented"-"What factors affect it"-"How to spread",analyzes how foreign paper media reports on climate change related to China construct China's national image,from the intellectual power of the national image,on the theoretical perspective of discourse power in the production of media discourse,and analyzes China's national image presented by foreign paper media reports on climate change related to China.Further,it puts forward some thoughts and suggestions on optimizing China's national image in climate change reports.Focused on "Who is shaping China",the research finds that although the source media from the foreign paper media reports on climate change in China are widely distributed,the news reports are still concentrated in the international mainstream news media,constructing China's climate change issues from a Western perspective;Western news agencies such as the Associated Press and Reuters are at the center of the communication network structure,controlling the sources of foreign paper media reports on climate change in China;Western media such as The New York Times and The Guardian control the channels of media referrals and serve as the important role of “information bridge”;Chinese media has enriched the presence of China in foreign media reports on climate change in China and the voices from China,but there are obvious deficiencies in influencing international media reports;Sino-US relations and Sino-Indian relations have become the important context for foreign paper media reports on climate change in China to construct China's national image.India,the United States and Indonesia have become important ties for inter-state interaction,building global context of foreign paper media on constructing China's national image via China's climate change reports.On the issue of foreign paper media reports on climate change in China about "How to Shape China" and "What kind of Chinese national image is presented",the study finds that the overall coverage of foreign paper media on climate change in China tends to be negative,but the proportion of positive reports is increasing year by year.Among them,regarding the media construction of China's climate and ecological issues,the media reports have shown the image of “Crisis in China” through the imagery discourse production,the multiple discourse replacement under the framework of responsibility attribution,and the “geographical landscape” and the national imagination;regarding the media construction on the issue of climate governance of the Chinese government,the media reports shapes the image of leaders in China's new energy sector through the joint practice from climate issues to economic issues,while highlighting the institutionalized risks of the Chinese government's climate governance policies;regarding the media construction on China's climate diplomacy,through the establishment of the "China-US" association sequence,China's international relations under the geopolitical narrative framework,and the image of Chinese government officials' climate diplomacy,the media reports outline the transformation of China's national image in the international climate and political field;regarding the media construction of the Chinese people's climate protection issues,through the establishment of the ideology matrix of "we" and "they",build a Chinese people's image with weak climate protection awareness and contradictions with the Chinese government by strategies of Intensification and Weakening by Utilizing Discourse.Analysis of the factors affecting the construction of China's national image by foreign paper media on China's climate change report finds that,there is a correlation between the source citation and the foreign paper media's tendency to report on climate change in China.Among them,the number of cited by the source is negatively correlated with the overall reporting tendency of foreign paper media on climate change in China,and the tendency of China's climate and ecological issues to report;Foreign paper media reports on climate change in China have positively correlated with Chinese sources' citations and the overall tendency of climate change in China,the tendency of China's climate governance issues,and the tendency of China's climate diplomacy reports.Concerns about economic factors are related to the tendency of foreign paper media to report on climate change in China.The degree of emphasis on the Chinese economy by foreign paper media on China's climate change report is negatively correlated with the trend of China's climate and ecological issues.In addition,the complex international political landscape and ideology behind the climate change science issue also affects the construction of China's national image by foreign media reports on climate change.The study finally analyzes China's national image presented by foreign paper media reports on climate change related to China,and summarizes the Chinese national image of “Crisis China”,“Menacing China” and “Leading China” presented by foreign paper media in China.Further,it puts forward some thoughts and suggestions on optimizing China's national image in climate change reports.The study believes that: First,use the climate justice discourse framework to explain China's position and compete for China's climate discourse power;second,strengthen the linkage of multi-distribution of climate issues and carry out climate public diplomacy;Third,pay attention to the construction of climate ecological citizen image and tell the story of China's climate governance.So as to strengthen the national image communication in China's climate change issues,strives for China's climate discourse power in the international climate politics and climate diplomacy field,and shapes China's "great responsible country" national image. |
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