China's Global Image Making
The Belt and Road Initiative in the Islamic World
Monographs
XIV,
254 Pages
Series:
The Belt and Road Initiative, Volume 3
Summary
China’s international political prominence is currently facing a strategic challenge and significant dilemma due to its image abroad. To address this, China is utilizing the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to shape its global image and enhance strategic engagements in the Afro-Eurasia region and beyond. This study employs a longitudinal content analysis method to examine China’s political, cultural, economic, technological, and social image in the most influential Islamic English news media. It critically analyzes China’s construction, interpretation, and dissemination of its global image in the context of the BRI. Furthermore, it sheds light on the historical and current relations between China and the Islamic world, including future prospects and potential challenges to China’s rise as an alternative global power for the Islamic world.
"This book provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of China’s strategic efforts to shape its global image through the Belt and Road Initiative in the Islamic world. By analyzing influential Islamic English news media, it sheds light on the historical and current relations between China and the Islamic world and offers valuable insights into future prospects and potential challenges. This book is essential for scholars and policymakers interested in comprehending China’s evolving global image and its impact on Sino-Islamic relations."
—Wu Fei, Qiushi Distinguished Professor, Director of International Communication Research Center, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
"It is increasingly important that, with the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) now on the books for a solid decade, we begin to take stock of its global impact in granular terms. This timely, well-illustrated book, which explores the nexus of BRI and China’s image as constructed in select English-language news media, does that with compelling, insightful analyses and with effulgent statistical data to boot in, and about, a region that is an archetypal Islamic influence. "
—Cornelius B. Pratt, Professor Emeritus of Global Communication and Leadership, Temple University, Philadelphia, United States
"This book provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of China’s strategic efforts to shape its global image through the Belt and Road Initiative in the Islamic world. By analyzing influential Islamic English news media, it sheds light on the historical and current relations between China and the Islamic world and offers valuable insights into future prospects and potential challenges. This book is essential for scholars and policymakers interested in comprehending China’s evolving global image and its impact on Sino-Islamic relations."
—Wu Fei, Qiushi Distinguished Professor, Director of International Communication Research Center, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
"It is increasingly important that, with the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) now on the books for a solid decade, we begin to take stock of its global impact in granular terms. This timely, well-illustrated book, which explores the nexus of BRI and China’s image as constructed in select English-language news media, does that with compelling, insightful analyses and with effulgent statistical data to boot in, and about, a region that is an archetypal Islamic influence. "
—Cornelius B. Pratt, Professor Emeritus of Global Communication and Leadership, Temple University, Philadelphia, United States
Excerpt
Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Chapter I Introduction
- Purpose of the study
- Significance of the study
- Objectives of the study
- Research questions
- An overview of the book
- References
- Chapter II China and Islamic World: The Mutually Beneficial Relationship
- Historical Silk Road connections
- Modern Sino-Islamic relations
- Mutually beneficial relationship
- References
- Chapter III China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Prospects and Challenges in the Islamic World
- Landscape of BRI
- BRI’s trajectory in the Islamic World
- Prospects and challenges
- Economic prospects and energy needs
- Strategic and political advantages
- Political and security challenges
- Collision of strategic interests
- Financial distress, debt trap, and local resentment
- Religious and cultural gaps
- Conclusion
- References
- Chapter IV Framing National Image: China’s Global Image Making in Media
- National/Country image
- Media and national image
- Framing the national image
- China’s image framing (Construction) in News Media
- China’s image framing in the Western Media
- China’s image framing in African and Islamic News Media
- References
- Chapter V China’s Global Image Perception
- Chapter VI Research Methodology
- Content analysis
- Population
- Saudi Arabia (Arab News)
- Pakistan (The Nation)
- Turkey (renamed as Türkiye) (Daily Sabah)
- Iran (Tehran Times)
- Egypt (Daily News Egypt)
- Qatar (Al-Jazeera English)
- Data collection
- Sampling technique
- Conceptualizing and measurement
- Media attention intensity
- China’s image
- China’s Image dimensions
- Journalistic attitude
- Article size
- Effects of economic relations on China’s image
- Effects of political/government system on China’s image
- Effects of Belt and Road Initiative
- Intercoder reliability
- Research questions
- References
- Chapter VII Research Findings
- Descriptive statistics
- Media attention intensity
- Type of articles
- Tone of the articles
- Journalistic attitude
- Themes related to China
- Sub-Themes related to China
- China’s image construction, interpretation, and dissemination
- China’s image dimensions
- China’s technological image
- China’s economic image
- China’s social image
- China’s cultural image
- China’s political image
- China’s comparative image in the Islamic World
- China’s image in a specific Islamic Country
- China’s image dimensions, in particular, Islamic English News Media
- Effects of China’s political system on China’s image
- Effects of economic relationship on China’s image
- Effects of the Belt and Road Initiative on China’s image
- References
- Chapter VIII Discussion and Conclusion
- Discussion
- Research implications
- Theoretical implications
- Practical implications
- Limitations of the study
- Research directions and a way forward
- Conclusion
- References
- Appendix A. Coding Sheet
- Index
Details
- Pages
- XIV, 254
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9781433195808
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9781433195815
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9781433195570
- DOI
- 10.3726/b19534
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2024 (April)
- Keywords
- Islamic English News Media Islamic World Image Construction Framing Theory China’s Image Perception Belt and Road Initiative
- Published
- New York, Berlin, Bruxelles, Chennai, Lausanne, Oxford, 2024. XIV, 254 pp., 16 b/w ill., 31 tables.
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