Chinese Images In The Late Qing Dynasty In American Local Newspapers (1893-1911)

The image of the Chinese people is of great significance to the national strategies such as Chinese national image,the interests of overseas Chinese people,and foreign politics.A good image of Chinese people is conducive to improving the cognition of others,which is conducive to improving the survival status of overseas Chinese,further integrating into the mainstream society,and gaining more recognition and support.Before the era of great sailing,Western society made up for the mysterious Chinese image of gold,prosperity,and golden.And polite.The hazy cognition brought by this kind of information is gradually broken with the development of the new route and the deepening of Chinese cognition,especially under the implementation of the industrial revolution and colonialism.The institutional level is gradually comprehensive than China.The concept of "West is superior to the East and the East belongs to the West" has gradually occupied the mainstream,and the cognition of the image of the Chinese people has also become ugly,cunning,and evil,and is even considered a group of difficult pagans.At that time,a series of Chinese excretion campaigns in the United States at that time,and even the national policies of the Chinese group were largely affected by the image of the Chinese people.The author studied in the late Qing Dynasty was at this stage,so it was difficult to get rid of the impact of this major premise.In the late Qing Dynasty,in addition to the contact of the image of the Chinese people,in addition to the contact of daily life,its main path was relied on mass media,which was mainly reflected in newspapers at that time.By the end of the 19 th century,the newspaper industry in the United States was very developed.In addition to the influential national newspapers,there were many commercial newspapers,political newspapers and local newspapers.Among them,local newspapers have developed rapidly with their regional and diversity characteristics and closer to the content of the social life of the local people.The development of local newspapers in the San Francisco area is particularly prosperous,which is more representative for studying the image of Chinese people in the late Qing Dynasty.Therefore,this article is based on the relevant reports involved in the Chinese people in the San Francisco Telecom.From the perspective of the local people,the use of historical,international relations,journalism,and sociology related theories to explore the late Qing Dynasty(1893 to 1911)The image of the Chinese.First of all,this article describes the basic situation of the Chinese in the late Qing Dynasty and the basic situation of the San Francisco Telecom.Among them,the number and distribution of Chinese people involved in the late Qing Dynasty,the main occupation and its staged changes,as well as the Chinese society and the organization.Essence Secondly,the article generally sort out the reports involving the Chinese people,and adopts the method of measurement history to sort out the relevant reports through the annual,themes,and the tendency.Announcement analyzes how the San Francisco Telecommunications News constructs the image of the American Chinese in the late Qing Dynasty.Then the case analysis method will be adopted to analyze the construction of the Chinese people’s image in the two major events of the Sino-Japanese War and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake fire.The analysis found that during the construction of the Chinese local newspaper in the late Qing Dynasty,the Chinese-white mainstream social consciousness was dominant;and the Chinese have always been regarded as the existence of the "other" in mainstream American society;A series of political organizations and social groups are basically full of conspiracy and threats in newspapers;most of the consciousness of Chinese people’s thoughts,culture,and beliefs during the construction process are mostly degraded or even distorted;the image construction of the Chinese people’s image is constructed There are certain differences between the cognitive differences in the process,and there are certain differences between different groups and class.Finally,on the basis of the previous discussion and analysis,it will explain the influencing factors of the Chinese image construction and the suggestions and revelations of overseas Chinese image construction in the current era.