The National Image Construction Of China From New York Times

As the popular saying goes: “Knowing each other better can compete better.”China, as the main country in the eastern world, who obtains the communism as the national development idea. However, America, as holding the capitalism to be the dominant value in their society. The distinguished differences between China and the USA in the aspect of ideology make them to construct distinguished national image to each other.The main aspect of this paper focuses on the report related to China、Chinese、Beijing and Perking from New York Times during the time 2013.01.01--2015.12.31,according to analyzing the news report from different angles and using qualitative methods mainly. The author try to analyze the image of China on international stage which New York Times to build and construct by reporting every aspects of China,including inner politics, economy, military force social welfare system and law obligations and so on. In addition, classifying reporting into two main category,namely “hard power” and “soft power” in order to capture Chinese national image more exactly combining with analyzing specialized cases. Besides, this paper tries to figure out the reasons and factors which restricts New York Times to report China.The research try to come up with the strategies of building national image, in order to provide a better international circumstance of China and obtain a more powerful influence in the world in the future.