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Chinese War Correspondents

Covering Wars and Conflicts in the Twenty-First Century

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Examines the values, perceptions, norms and practices of contemporary Chinese journalists
  • Offers a unique, systematic and holistic analysis about contemporary wartime journalism from a Chinese perspective
  • Considers the role of Chinese war reporting in a range of conflicts, from the Libyan and Afghanistan Wars to Palestinian-Israelis Conflict

Part of the book series: Palgrave Series in Asia and Pacific Studies (PSAPS)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
  2. Introduction

    • Shixin Ivy Zhang
    Pages 1-28
  3. Motivations, Roles, and Digital Technology

    • Shixin Ivy Zhang
    Pages 29-46
  4. Objectivity and Constraints in War Reporting

    • Shixin Ivy Zhang
    Pages 47-68
  5. Foreign Policy and War Correspondents

    • Shixin Ivy Zhang
    Pages 69-87
  6. Covering the Libyan War

    • Shixin Ivy Zhang
    Pages 89-109
  7. Covering the Syrian War

    • Shixin Ivy Zhang
    Pages 111-134
  8. Covering the Afghanistan War

    • Shixin Ivy Zhang
    Pages 135-155
  9. Covering the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

    • Shixin Ivy Zhang
    Pages 157-179
  10. Conclusion

    • Shixin Ivy Zhang
    Pages 181-194
  11. Back Matter

    Pages 195-204

About this book

This book engages with the Chinese mediation of wars and conflicts in the global environment.
Proposing a new cascading media and conflict model, it applies this to the study
of war correspondents from six levels: media-policy relations, journalistic objectivity, role
perceptions, news framing and peace/war journalism, news practices, and audience.


Based on interviews with 23 Chinese journalists and case study analysis of the Libyan War,
Syrian War, Afghanistan War and Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the book demonstrates that
a new breed of Chinese war correspondents has emerged today. They undergo a complex
and nuanced mediated communication process. Neither traditionally Chinese in their
approach nor western in their perceptions, they are uniquely pragmatic in negotiating their
roles in a complex web of internal and external actors and factors. The core ideology seemsto be anti-West in defiance of the US hegemony and the bias of global media as well as
neutral-Muslims.


Exploring the role perceptions, values, norms and practices of contemporary Chinese war
correspondents who go outside China to bring the ‘distant culture’ back home, this text is key
reading for scholars and students in international journalism, international communication,
war and peace studies, international relations and Chinese studies.


Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Nottingham Ningbo China , Ningbo, China

    Shixin Ivy Zhang

About the author

Shixin Ivy Zhang (Ph.D., University of Leeds) is Assistant Professor in Journalism Studies at the University of Nottingham Ningbo, China. Her first research monograph is Impact of Globalization on the Local Press in China: A Case Study of the Beijing Youth Daily (2014).

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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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Hardcover Book USD 54.99
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