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City image communication is of high significance for city marketing and city competitiveness enhancement. The article explores the interaction between news discourse and Nanjing city image communication. Literature review: Most of studies focus on city architecture, tourism and landscapes and public security. However, less attention has been paid to the relations between discourse and city image communication. Research questions: 1. Who is speaking to communicate Nanjing city image?2. What kind of image of Nanjing is communicated? 3. How or in what way is Nanjing city imagecommunicated? Methodology: The study adopts a fusion of the perspectives of constructivism andcultural discourse studies (CDS) to account for Nanjing city image communication in political and culturalcontexts of contemporary China. Results: (1) the voices of ordinary professionals and citizens in thenews narration reflect the trend of diversity in discourse subjects;(2) Nanjing city image are constructedfrom four aspects, governing style, economic development, environmental protection, history, culture& education, with the negative topic of corruption, bribery and air/water pollution; (3) Nanjing cityimage are communicated favorably by news stories of event profiles and general picture profiles, givingus a portrait of Nanjing mostly by describing hot issues and introducing policies. Conclusions: The mediadiscourse of Nanjing city image is a reflection of social changes and realities, working as a catalyst toshape people's views toward Nanjing's reality and to mold the practice of the communication. Thestudy contributes to city image communication by developing an interdisciplinary discursive frameworkand provides Implications for city administrators and communicative strategists, professionals in citymarketing and professional communication theorist in constructing and communicating city image.

Foreword -- Preface -- Background -- Theoretical and Practical Significances -- Preview of the Book -- Words of Appreciation -- Contents -- Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Intra-Asian Chinese Migrations: A Historical Overview -- Introduction -- The Chinese Trade Diaspora and Huashang-Dominated Intra-Asian Migration -- Pre-Nineteenth-Century Maritime Commerce -- The Role of the Imperial Chinese State -- The Fall of the Chinese Empire: Semicolonialism and Huagong Migration -- Huagong (Chinese Labor) to Southeast Asia -- Precolonial vs. Colonial Chinese Migration -- Developments After World War II -- Decolonization, Nation-State-Building and Restrictive Immigration -- Economic Development and Contemporary Migration Trends -- Undocumented or Clandestine Chinese Immigration -- Discussion and Conclusion -- References -- Part I: New Chinese Diasporas in Africa -- Chapter 2: The Politics of Chineseness in South Africa: From Apartheid to 2015 -- Introduction -- Multiple Chinese Communities -- Early Chinese Immigration from Guangzhou -- Immigration from Taiwan -- New Chinese Migration from Mainland China -- Chinese South Africans: Not White Enough, Not Black Enough -- Chinese as ``Honorary Whites´´ -- ``Chinese Now Black!´´ -- Taiwanese South Africans -- Cheap South African Passports -- Political Participation -- New Chinese Migrants: Love Affair with the ANC -- Rising China and Its Influence on South Africa -- New Chinese Migrants and the ANC -- Conclusion: Becoming South African or Using Chineseness to Get Ahead? -- References -- Chapter 3: Chinese Traders in Ghana: The Liminality Trap, and Challenges for Ethnic Formation and Integration -- Introduction: The Chinese Paradox in Africa -- Chinese Migration to Ghana -- The Early Years: Manufacturers from Hong Kong, and Trading Representatives from Taiwan and Mainland China

Contemporary Chinese America is the most comprehensive sociological investigation of the experiences of Chinese immigrants to the United States—and of their offspring—in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The author, Min Zhou, is a well-known sociologist of the Chinese American experience. In this volume she collects her original research on a range of subjects, including the causes and consequences of emigration from China, demographic trends of Chinese Americans, patterns of residential mobility in the U.S., Chinese American "ethnoburbs," immigrant e

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This study examines Chinese university students' feelings towards foreign countries, using original high-quality survey data collected in 2014 at three top universities in Beijing. First, elite Chinese students' perceptions of specific countries are revealed. Being from top universities, these individuals will have great influence on China's future politics and international relations. It is thus important to gauge their perceptions of other countries. They generally feel warmly towards the European Union, Russia, and the United States, but harbour cold feelings towards Northeast Asian neighbours (Japan and the two Koreas). Second, this study finds that the effects of the socio-demographic and political factors underlying students' feelings differ greatly from country to country. I construct various social profiles of the students (dis)liking particular countries. Third, this study establishes a connection between nationalism and feelings towards particular countries. Chinese nationalism is not equally targeted at all other countries. While it elevates animosity mainly against Japan and the US, it promotes a closer rapport with North Korea and Russia. (JCCA/GIGA)

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