Studying Chinese Foreign Policy Narratives

Introducing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Press Conferences Corpus

Bibliographic Data

ID7871048
AuthorsMichal Mochtak (0000-0001-5598-5642, University of Luxembourg, corresponding author), Richard Q Turcsányi (0000-0003-2036-6029, Palacký University Olomouc)
Year2021
Volume26
Issue4
Pages743-761
Publication date2021-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Chinese Political Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1080-6954 • E-ISSN: 1555-7898
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s11366-021-09762-3
PMID34580572
OpenAlexW3204962599
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited49

The paper presents an original corpus of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs press conferences. The dataset is a unique source of information on official positions and diplomatic narratives of China mapping almost two decades of its foreign policy discourse. The corpus contains almost 23,000 question – answer dyads from 2002 to 2020 ready to be used for analytical purposes. We argue the dataset is an important contribution to the scholarship on Chinese foreign policy stimulating further research using corpus based methods while employing both qualitative and quantitative strategies. We demonstrate possible applications of the corpus with two case studies: first maps the diplomatic discourse towards the US under the presidency of Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping (employing quantitative tools), while second analyzes narratives concerning the South China Sea disputes (employing more qualitative approach

China · Christian ministry · Foreign policy · Linguistics · Media studies · Ministry of Foreign Affairs · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Presidency · Qualitative research · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Computational and Text Analysis Methods · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Public Administration

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