A Research On China-related Financial News Reporting Of The Wall Street Journal

China's GDP jumped from sixth in the world to second place in the first decade of the 21th century. The world's economy situation has undergone tremendous changes because of China's rise. But the international environment for China's economic development hasn't always been good, especially the Sino-US economic relations is usually in tension because of varied frictions. As the only super power in the world, the economic relations with the U.S. greatly determines the international environment for China's economic development. To study the China-related financial news on American mainstream media can help us to learn the American mainstream society's view on China's economic rise, and can provide some suggestions for the improvement of Sino-US economic relations.I choose the world famous financial media The Wall Street Journal to do a research. By resorting to the content analysis and frame analysis I study the China-related financial news on The Wall Street Journal from macro, meso, micro levels. From the macro level, I analysis the quantity and main topics of its china-related financial news. From the meso level, I analysis the news bias and news source. From the macro level, I analysis the high-frequency words.The thesis has found that The Wall Street Journal's reporting frame on China-related financial news has changed. Before 2007, The Wall Street Journal was inclined to report the positive impact of China's rapid economic growth. But from 2007 to 2010, The Wall Street Journal was inclined to report the adverse impact of China's economic rising. The previous reporting frame can be named "progress" frame , and the latter can be named "threat and worry" frame. Of course the latter reporting frame does harm to China's economic image.Finally this thesis explores the factors that influence the Wall Street Journal's financial news on China, and also makes some suggestions to improve China's economic image on the foreign press.