Liu Wen 
How American Media Presents Crisis of Sino-Us Relations 

Sino-US relation that has great influence on international relations is considered as the most important bilateral relation in the world today by politicians and scholars from both of the two countries. The development of Sino-US relation has undergone twists and turns since the two countries established diplomatic relation.

Although China and America has developed cooperative relationship in various areas, critical events resulted from conflicts happen from time to time. Media that plays various roles including message transmitter, public opinion shaper and problem solver during the two countries’ crisis is not only an important information channel for both the government and the people to learn about the crisis quickly, but also undertakes certain diplomatic duties like indicating attitude, explaining policy and setting agenda.

This book is an analysis of the features and laws of media coverage on critical events between China and America, discussing their influence on public opinion of American people as well as the decision-making progress of American government by study the related reports of New York Times since 1990. This book takes some China-US crisis as study cases and the related reports in New York Times as researching sample, analyzing the quantity, length, type, information source, inclination towards China and news frame of the reports, discussing the features and laws of media coverage on crises between China and America. The ultimate purpose is to figure out the role and function of media during the decision-making process of America’s China policy and to conclude the inspiration for both countries’ diplomacy and international communication.

About the author

Liu Wen, lecturer at the School of Television, Communication University of China. She received her doctorate in international journalism from Communication University of China in 2017. Then, she did post-doctorate work in drama and film at the same institution. Since December 2019, she is a visiting scholar at the University of Southern California. Her major research interests are international issues and news reports, international news and diplomacy, visual forms of film and television dramas and cross-cultural communication.

She took the lead in participating in the National Social Science Fund Project Research on the Mechanism of the Visual Forms of TV Drama Dissemination, and the Jiangsu Provincial Social Science Fund Project Research on the Law of Information Dissemination from the Perspective of Time and Space. She has successively published more than 10 papers in academic journals such as China Television, Contemporary TV, International Communications and News Front. She used to be the director of the programs Travel Around The World and Any Way Any Where on Travel Channel of China.