These events indicate that China is increasingly confident and capable in propagating terminology and vocabulary that carry normative impact. Simply put, China’s discourse power shows signs of growth.

Editor’s note: This is the first article in a three-part series about China’s “Discourse Power” project. The Chinese Communist party-state recently ordered international airlines to change their ...

China has become more assertive in the international community with a discourse that has evolved, by including diverse tools, aside from the predominant discourse of the West, Chinese observers said ...

Shifts in China’s economic and military power continue to produce dramatic headlines, but few recognize the changing nature and impact of China’s internationally oriented discourse as a form of power.

Efforts by the Chinese state and its state-affiliated actors to engage with global media can be seen as part of a broader drive to enhance China’s soft power and shape narratives in the state’s favor.

KELL copy has bookplate: Purchased with funds from the Department of Palaeobiology. In the second half of the twentieth century, worldwide attitudes toward whaling shifted from widespread acceptance ...

In the new global context, we need to focus on making great efforts to strengthen our capability of international communication - and gain an international discourse power that matches our ...

Discourse and power are related subjects. According to Iara Lessa’s summary of French social theorist Michel Foucault’s original definition, “discourse” primarily refers to “systems of thoughts ...