The Construction Of Chinese Nation's Image By TIME Of 2004

Nation's image means the other countries'(including single person,organizations and governments)comprehensive commends and completed expressionså¹´The nation's image discussed here is Chinese image which constructed by the international news reports and criticså¹´It is the comprehensive commends and expressions of the international public opinionså¹´The present international public opinion is mainly led by the western media, especially by the American mediaå¹´Up to today, our civil media still cannot have much influence on the international public opinion though our media have made great progress in recent yearså¹´Consequently, our nation's image is mainly constructed by the western mediaå¹´TIME is the greatest news magazine issued weekly, and it is also the most popular weekly news magazine in the world, it was ever named as HISTORY TANKå¹´In 1898 Henry R Luce who was born in China and Brition Hardden created a weekly news magazine-TIME with only 68,000$å¹´In the early years, TIME quickly came to be strong, in the first years, the total sales volume reached to 250,000å¹´TIME then issued its overseas versions as in Latin America and Canada from 1940s, till 1963 its overseas version was issued in up to 9 countries and areas, the total sales volume reached to 300 millionå¹´The sales volume lastly climbed to 2,300 million till 1986, in this year, TIME Company was combined with Warner, then TIME became the most important weekly news magazine in the whole worldå¹´TIME has developed its own style from the very beginningå¹´It has the following features: internationalized and categorized reports, slow new, biography-like news reports and specific subjective news reports and so onå¹´TIME has great influence on the international public opinion by its news report and explains in the USA as well as in the other countries and areaså¹´Because of the spectacular relationship of China and America, even because of the difference of history and cultural tradition, TIME's reports over China shows distinct characteristics, it is the"invisible hand"which plays...