Silhouette Journalism

China Reporting in the Light of the US Opening to China

Bibliographic Data

ID12909877
AuthorsChunfeng Lin (0000-0002-0245-962X, East China Normal University, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume15
Issue2
Pages192-208
Publication date2019-12-17
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournalism Practice (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1751-2786 • E-ISSN: 1751-2794
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17512786.2019.1703120
OpenAlexW2995301012
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited20

Diplomatic normalization between the US and China in the early 1970s was a milestone in Sino-American relations. This article, through the lens of a few American journalists, specifically James Reston of The New York Times and his colleagues, explores how American reporting of China changed around this time. A term “silhouette journalism” is coined to conceptualize the normalization of China reporting in the US before the opening period. The article also argues that the renewed style of China reporting of the period was short-lived, and gradually regressed to its early silhouette journalism upon the normalcy in the international exchange of news and information between the two countries

Aesthetics · Art · China · Journalism · Media studies · Milestone · Normalization (sociology · Period (music · Political science · Silhouette · Social science · Sociology · History · Law · Media Studies and Communication

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