| From the strategic communication perspective,this dissertation focuses on the evolution of the international communication thought of the Chinese leaders of Mao Zedong,Deng Xiaoping,Jiang Zemin,Hu Jintao,and Xi Jinping since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949.The international communication thoughts of the Chinese leaders are an integral part of the theoretical achievement of the Sinicization and modernization of Marxism,which is of great research value.This dissertation focuses on the evolution of the international communication thought of Chinese leaders.The first chapter traces the origin of the thoughts of the Chinese leaders on external communication and discusses the influences of the theories related to international communication in Marxism and the excellent traditional Chinese culture.This chapter also examines the practice of international communication in New China and the influence of the academic achievements of international communication at home and abroad on the thoughts of the Chinese leaders on external communication.Based on the systematic synthesis of the research materials,the second chapter finds a clear evolution of Chinese leaders’ thoughts on international communication in the course of New China’s seven-decade history.The third chapter mainly analyzes the evolution path and motivation of the Chinese leaders’ communication thoughts.From the strategic communication perspective,it divides the international communication thoughts of the Chinese leaders into two levels:"strategy" and "means".The "Strategy" includes goals and strategies of external communication;the "Means" includes external media communication,national image building,construction of international discourse power,international public opinion response,foreign cultural exchanges,and people-to-people diplomacy communication.This chapter makes a diachronic review of eight aspects involved in "strategy" and"means",excavates and presents the evolution path of external communication thoughts,and then analyzes the motivations that affect the evolution of external communication thoughts of the Chinese leaders.The fourth chapter analyzes the changes and constancies of basic characteristics of the thoughts of the Chinese leaders in the process of external communication:the thoughts of external communication have always been political and people-oriented,their strategic importance has become increasingly prominent,the inheritance and innovation are dialectically unified,and the theory and practice complement each other.The fifth chapter summarizes the influence of the Chinese leaders’foreign communication thoughts on domestic and foreign academic research and China’s foreign communication practice.The research is based on a framework which includes the source of foreign communication thoughts,the development of thoughts contents,the evolution and motivation of the thoughts,the changes and constancy of the characteristics,and the influence of thoughts.According to the characteristics of the topic and the research content,the research methodologies used in this study include documentary research,discourse analysis,and quantitative historiography.The basic conclusions of this paper are threefold.First,the evolution path of the foreign communication thoughts of Chinese leaders since the founding of the People’s Republic of China can be summarized as developing from doing a good job in external publicity to strengthening international communication.Second,the current situation,China’s international strategy and foreign policy,the central work of the Party and the state,foreign countries’ policies and propaganda towards China and the development and application of communication technology are the motivating factors that contribute to the change of the Chinese leaders’ thoughts on international communication.There is an interactive relationship between thought and motivation.Third,the Chinese leaders’thoughts on international communication can enrich the connotation of strategic communication theory and promote the construction of a theoretical system of international communication with Chinese characteristics.At the descriptive level,this dissertation sums up the content evolution,path of evolution,and the change and constancy of ideological characteristics of the international communication thoughts of the Chinese leaders.At the explanatory level,the dissertation discusses the motivation for the change of the thoughts of Chinese leaders in international communication and the relationship between the thoughts and motivation.It also discusses the relationship between the source and content of the Chinese leaders’ communication ideas and the influence of the Chinese leaders’ communication of ideas on academic research and communication practice.The theoretical significance of this dissertation is reflected in that the research on the change of the foreign communication thought of the Chinese leaders helps build the theoretical system of international communication with Chinese characteristics and promotes the localization of international communication theory.In terms of theory guiding practice,the induction of changes in the international communication thoughts of the Chinese leaders can help to build a strategic communication system with Chinese characteristics.There innovation of this dissertation can be seen from three aspects.First,there are innovations in the topic selection and academic views.This dissertation systematically summarizes the changes in the international communication thoughts of the Chinese leaders from the perspective of strategic communication,examines whether,how and why the external communication thoughts have changed,discovers the ideological evolution path from doing a good job in external publicity to strengthening international communication,and analyzes the motivation of ideological evolution.This dissertation argues that the thoughts,concepts and knowledge contained in the important discourse of the Chinese leaders on international communication have formed a system,creating the conditions that enable the construction of the theoretical system of international communication with Chinese characteristics.At the same time,a systematic study of the changes in the thoughts on international communication of major Chinese leaders can provide a mirror for constructing a strategic communication system with distinctive Chinese characteristics.Second,the theoretical horizon is novel.This dissertation aims to examines the changes in the external communication thoughts of Chinese leaders from the perspective of the strategic communication,and it is more innovative against a background of that the concept of strategic communication has entered the discourse system of the policy-making level.Third,the novelty in the application of research methods.This dissertation innovatively combines the methods of historical literature research,discourse analysis and quantitative historiography to study the evolution of ideas through a combination of qualitative research and quantitative methods. |
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