Systematical Analysis Of “China’s Image” On The Washington Post

With the growth of China’s economic, political and military strength, the presentation of China’s national image has become increasingly important, which directly influence the global community. The China’s image is probably dominated by the western media. Referring to previous research methods and findings, the researcher analyzes the test of China-related reports from the Washington-post(from March 2013 to June 2014). On the basis of the quantitative data, the researcher tries to display a general picture of China’s national image on the Washington-post(from March 2013 to June 2014), thus to reveal the frame of China-related reports. To discuss how the frame worked linguistically, two case studies have been conducted by using keyword and sentence extraction and word frequency statistics.(“violent and terrorist crimes happened in Kunming”and "two sessions".)...