China's Contemporary Image and Rhetoric Practice

Weixiao Wei has been working with Taiyuan University of Technology as a lecturer at the College of Foreign Languages and Literatures since she obtained her MA degree in 2010. In July 2017, she obtained a visiting scholarship from China Scholarship Council (CSC) to visit Swansea University, UK for a year. Since then, she has published a monograph and three book chapters with Routledge. From May to July 2018 she had the experience of working with a Confucius Institute Chinese School affiliated to University of Wales Trinity Saint David at Swansea, UK as a teaching assistant. In addition to preparing research papers, monograph and edited volumes for further publication, she will pursue her PhD study in rhetoric and composition at UH in 2020.

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• ContentsList of FiguresList of TablesList of ContributorsIntroduction by Weixiao Wei1. Does Title or Content Matter? Examining China’s Partnerships with Text Classification by I-chieh Kuo & Weihao Huang2. Critical Discourse Analysis of 2010 China-US Trade Dispute in the Headlines of Western Newsmagazines by Damien Ng3. The language of ‘China threat’: a case study of the BBC television documentary series ‘The Chinese Are Coming’ by Shasha Wang4. Digital Media, Governance, and the Making of Youth in Contemporary China by Qing Cao, Iris Lang5. Investigating the Discursive Construction of Traditional Chinese Medicine on Chinese National Media by Xiangdong Liu6. Analyzing and Interpreting COVID-19-related Texts in Chinese: A Systemic Functional Perspective by Victor Wong, Yuanyi Ma, Mark Nartey7. Chineseness in Bian Zhilin’s Pre-war Poetry: an exploration of utopian notion and New Poetry by Yang Zhou8. Rhetoric in Chinese patriotic translators' discourse fueled by the translating of foreign literature by Weixiao Wei, Hui ShiIndex