TY - JOUR
T1 - Perceiving Different Chinas
T2 - Paradigm Change in the “Personalized Journalism” of Elite U.S. Journalists, 1976–1989
AU - Song, Celine
AU - Lee, Chin Chuan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Yunya Song & Chin-Chuan Lee.
Copyright:
Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2016/2/21
Y1 - 2016/2/21
N2 - This article investigates how elite U.S. correspondents recast their journalistic paradigm in response to the momentous collapse of the Cultural Revolution in 1976, which dealt a fatal blow to the validity of much of their previous writings. Elements of the constructed "virtuous socialist China" in the 1970s came to be discredited in the 1980s and were replaced by celebratory discourse on China's adoption of market economy. The romantic imaginings about China's "new socialist way" stood in sharp contrast to Western-cum-universal values of freedom, democracy, and individualism, as well as American lifestyles, capital, and know-how. The reporting hinged on how journalists employed the "enduring values" of America as paradigms to make sense of China's conditions and U.S.-China relations. The "radical" journalistic paradigm of the 1970s was repudiated by the collapse of the Cultural Revolution, whereas the "liberal" paradigm of the 1980s was shattered by the Tiananmen crackdown.
AB - This article investigates how elite U.S. correspondents recast their journalistic paradigm in response to the momentous collapse of the Cultural Revolution in 1976, which dealt a fatal blow to the validity of much of their previous writings. Elements of the constructed "virtuous socialist China" in the 1970s came to be discredited in the 1980s and were replaced by celebratory discourse on China's adoption of market economy. The romantic imaginings about China's "new socialist way" stood in sharp contrast to Western-cum-universal values of freedom, democracy, and individualism, as well as American lifestyles, capital, and know-how. The reporting hinged on how journalists employed the "enduring values" of America as paradigms to make sense of China's conditions and U.S.-China relations. The "radical" journalistic paradigm of the 1970s was repudiated by the collapse of the Cultural Revolution, whereas the "liberal" paradigm of the 1980s was shattered by the Tiananmen crackdown.
KW - America's China reporting
KW - Enduring values
KW - International news
KW - Journalistic paradigm
KW - Personalized journalism
UR - https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/5486
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85047901193&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85047901193
VL - 10
SP - 4460
EP - 4479
JO - International Journal of Communication
JF - International Journal of Communication
SN - 1932-8036
ER -