The Government Work Reports (GWRs) of China are important documents conveying the
government's voice and publicising the tasks they set for the country, and they attract much …

After three and a half decades of economic reforms, radical changes have occurred in all
aspects of life in China. In an authoritarian society, these changes are mediated significantly …

Since the start of China's rise, the country has witnessed a plethora of transformations on the
economic, political and societal levels. In the field of communications, for example, new …

This chapter discusses theoretical and methodological issues concerning doing critical
discourse analysis in China. The authors believe that China's unique social, cultural and …

This chapter studies how nation-state is built through discourse evolution in contemporary
China. I consider discourse as an ensemble of concepts of an ideology bespoken by a …

The article carries out a diachronic analysis of the topics and schemata of foreign policy
sections (FPSs) in the Chinese government's Annual Work Report (AWR, 1993–2007) to the …

This article investigates the evolution of Chinese discourse on the rise of China. The phrase
“China's rise” began to appear in the discourse of Western media in the early 1990s. China's …

Research suggests that over the last two decades China has undergone dramatic changes
in its communication climate. The former mono-glossic environment has made way for a …

This book helps readers to understand communication and society in contemporary China
through systematic analysis of multimodal discourse at the national, institutional, and …

This article describes the ideological adaptation that occurred in China during the 1990s,
when the reform of state-owned enterprises rearticulated the state-labor relationship. The …