A Study On The Construction Of China’s Image By Singapore Lianhe Zaobao(2011-2015)

Nowadays,with the increasingly globalized information flow,national image not only lies in personal view and experience of the country,but also exits in the news reports of mass media,especially the mainstream media all over the world.Overseas Chinese-language media,as an important part of multi-culture in their countries,has been playing a significant role in reporting China’s development and demonstrating contemporary China.This paper selects Lianhe Zaobao,the major Chinese-language comprehensive daily newspaper in Singapore,as the research object,and analyzes the news reports on China sampled from those reported between 2011 and 2015.Its purpose is to study how overseas Chinese-language news media represented by Singapore’s Lianhe Zaobao construct China’s image,as well as what image they have constructed,and further analyze the cause of the image.In the course of concrete research,this thesis uses content analysis method to analyze the reports on China by Lianhe Zaobao,and draws relevant conclusions.Chapters are arranged as follows:Chapter one is the introduction.It illustrates the research background and research significance;collects relevant literatures about national image,as well as literatures home and abroad about the relationship between Lianhe Zaobao and China’s image to reveal research status quo;defines key concepts involved in this thesis.Chapter two clarifies the research objects and methods.Category construction and reliability analysis are done based on the research questions.Chapter three analyzes the reports from five aspects: the total amount of the reports,manuscript origin,news topics,genres,and report tendency to present the overall outcome of the samples.Chapter four concludes three types of report frames used in the construction of China’s image by Lianhe Zaobao: achievement framework,problem presentation framework and rational analysis framework.Furthermore,it also explore the formation cause of China’s image constructed by Lianhe Zaobao from four aspects: the drive by cultural factors,promotion by economic development,and influence by international relations as well as appeals by readership.The conclusion summarizes the full thesis and offers enlightenment based on the constructions of China’s image by Lianhe Zaobao.