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Professor Qing Cao's Outputs (22)

Review Essay: Contemporary Marxist Aesthetics and Criticism (2023)
Journal Article
Cao, Q. (2023). Review Essay: Contemporary Marxist Aesthetics and Criticism. Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature, 7(2), 168-172

This article presents an introduction and evaluation of a new book titled “Contemporary Marxist Aesthetics and Criticism: Interviews with Western Scholars.” The aim is to provide a critical overview of the book. Using the interviews with four promine... Read More about Review Essay: Contemporary Marxist Aesthetics and Criticism.

The Relational Self: Maternal Inheritance and Eurasian Identity in Han Suyin’s The Crippled Tree (2022)
Journal Article
Wang, Y., Cao, Q., & Nitschke, C. (2023). The Relational Self: Maternal Inheritance and Eurasian Identity in Han Suyin’s The Crippled Tree. Life Writing, 20(3), 563-581. https://doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2022.2151847

This work examines Han Suyin’s representation of her Eurasian identity in relation to her maternal inheritance, focusing on her autobiography The Crippled Tree, the first volume in the series China: Autobiography, History. Drawing on Paul John Eakin’... Read More about The Relational Self: Maternal Inheritance and Eurasian Identity in Han Suyin’s The Crippled Tree.

The Discourse of Xinmin: Mindset Remodelling and Nation-Building in Early Twentieth Century China (2022)
Journal Article
Cao, Q. (2022). The Discourse of Xinmin: Mindset Remodelling and Nation-Building in Early Twentieth Century China. Chinese Language and Discourse. An International and Interdisciplinary Journal, 13(1), 123-143. https://doi.org/10.1075/cld.21032.cao

Focusing on Liang Qichao’s campaign of moral character reform, this article examines the discourse of xinmin (新民) as a social engineering project of people-making as nationbuilding in the 1900s. Drawing on Koselleck’s conceptual history, it analyse... Read More about The Discourse of Xinmin: Mindset Remodelling and Nation-Building in Early Twentieth Century China.

A Corpus-based Investigation of Guomin (2018)
Journal Article
Cao, Q. (2018). A Corpus-based Investigation of Guomin. Zhongguo shehui yuyanxue, 31(2), 13-28

One of the fundamental changes in modern China is the transformation from a traditional dynasty to a modern nation-state. However institutional transformation is often pushed and guided by a system of ideas. Previous studies on late Qing transformati... Read More about A Corpus-based Investigation of Guomin.

Rupture in Modernity: A Case Study of Radicalism in Late Qing Chinese Press Debate (2017)
Journal Article
Cao, Q. (2017). Rupture in Modernity: A Case Study of Radicalism in Late Qing Chinese Press Debate. Critical Arts: A Journal of South-North Cultural Studies, 31(6), 9-28. https://doi.org/10.1080/02560046.2017.1407809

Drawing on the idea of organic society, this article examines the discourse of modernity in the late Qing press debate between the monarchist periodical Xinmin congbao and the revolutionary Minbao in 1905–1907. Based on corpus-based analysis, the art... Read More about Rupture in Modernity: A Case Study of Radicalism in Late Qing Chinese Press Debate.

Modernity and Media Portrayals of China (2012)
Journal Article
Cao, Q. (2012). Modernity and Media Portrayals of China. Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, 22(1), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1075/japc.22.1.01cao

China's image in the Western media has long been a contentious issue. Many previous studies have focused on what images are constructed but few have examined how those images are generated. This article aims to address this issue by exploring cultura... Read More about Modernity and Media Portrayals of China.

The Language of Soft Power: Mediating Socio-political Meanings in the Chinese Media (2011)
Journal Article
Cao, Q. (2011). The Language of Soft Power: Mediating Socio-political Meanings in the Chinese Media. Critical Arts: A Journal of South-North Cultural Studies, 25(1), 7-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/02560046.2011.552203

This article aims to examine the discursive structure of ‘soft power’ in China, its cultural, historical and political backgrounds and the role the mass media play in mediating its meanings. Conceptualised within critical discourse analysis, this stu... Read More about The Language of Soft Power: Mediating Socio-political Meanings in the Chinese Media.

The re-imagined West in Chinese Television: a Case Study of the CCTV Documentary Series the Rise of the Great Powers (2010)
Journal Article
Cao, Q. (2010). The re-imagined West in Chinese Television: a Case Study of the CCTV Documentary Series the Rise of the Great Powers. Journal of Language and Politics, 9(4), 615-633. https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.9.4.08cao

This paper examines television portrayals of the West in contemporary China, focusing on an emerging non-victimistic media discourse on modern Western history. The analysis is contextualized within the wider sociopolitical dynamics of a rising nation... Read More about The re-imagined West in Chinese Television: a Case Study of the CCTV Documentary Series the Rise of the Great Powers.

China's political discourse towards the 21st century : victimhood, identity, and political power, (1999)
Journal Article
Cao, Q., & Renwick, N. (1999). China's political discourse towards the 21st century : victimhood, identity, and political power,. East Asia, 17(4), 111-143. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12140-999-0019-7

Political discourse is critical to the legitimisation of China's ruling elite and critically informs its formulation and execution of political action. This study explores the theme of victimhood in China's contemporary political discourse. The const... Read More about China's political discourse towards the 21st century : victimhood, identity, and political power,.