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Qing, Wang (2014)

Defending or Negotiating Legitimacy: The Discursive Range that Two Media Outlets Deploy in the 2013 Anti-corruption Campaign in China

Master thesis | Asian Studies (120 EC) (MA)

For China, 2013 was the year of anti-corruption. The starting point of my research is that anti-corruption is not just a process of punishing political or economic crimes or improving supervision mechanisms, but also a process to reconstruct the Party’s legitimacy. Therefore, from the perspective of political legitimacy, questions concerning how to tell the story of corruption become crucial. My central research question focuses on (1) what the discursive range of anti-corruption reporting by different Chinese media was and (2) how these narratives related to the Party’s legitimacy.

anti-corruption

China

media

discourse

politics

legitimacy

Author

Qing, Wang

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Chinese media and politics

Supervisors

Florian, Schneider

ECTS Credits

30

Language

en