Hero and villain on a foreign land: a textual analysis on U.S. newspaper coverage of China’s Uighur unrest

• Main Author: Zhu, Di
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: P Philology. Linguistics
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/20900/1/shsconf_icome2017%201%2011.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/20900/; http://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20173300017

This study aims at understanding U.S. media coverage of China's relationship with its mostly Muslim minority group Uighur during the period of several deadly attacks conducted by members from Uighur ethnic group.The study looks into 52 news stories and 3 opinion pieces in the New York Times and...