Author Description

The New York Times is considered to be a representative example of foreign media by Chinese people. Based on a theory of a hierarchy of influences on media content, and examining the issue and the framing of media reports as quantitative and qualitative indicators respectively, this book tackles the case study of the reports on Tibet published from 1980 to 2010 in The New York Times. It analyses possible influences on these reports, based on the features of issue development and framing tendencies embodied in them; unearths and summarizes the problems faced by China over the international discourse regarding Tibet; and proposes ways to improve intercultural communication and understanding. Huang Min is a Research Fellow of the Research Centre for Discourse and Communication, and Chair Professor of the 'Qianjiang Scholars Programme' of Zhejiang provincial government, Zhejiang University of Media and Communications, China. She obtained her PhD at Fudan University, and worked at East China Normal University until 2014. She carried out her post-doctoral studies at the Department of Chinese Studies of the National University of Singapore, and completed an exchange program at the Department of Linguistics of Lancaster University in the UK. Her research focuses on mass media discourse analysis. She has published three monographs and over 30 papers in many prestigious Chinese journals, including Journalism & Communication, Journalism Quarterly, and Studies in Language and Linguistics. She has participated in many research projects funded by the National Social Science Fund of China, the Ministry of Education, and the Municipality of Shanghai Philosophy and Social Science Project, Zhejiang Province Philosophy and Social Science Project, and Zhejiang Province Project for Humanities and Social Sciences in Colleges and Universities.