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Reading The Tea Leaves: The Media And Sino-American Rapprochement, 1963-1972, Guolin Yi
Reading The Tea Leaves: The Media And Sino-American Rapprochement, 1963-1972, Guolin Yi
Wayne State University Dissertations
This dissertation aims to find out what role(s) the media in the United States and China played in their historic rapprochement from 1963 to 1972. In order to examine how they covered the major events that affected Sino-American relations, I select seven elite U.S. media and two Chinese official newspapers to study. These media include: the New York Times, Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, CBS, ABC, NBC, People's Daily, and Reference News,
The study is based on the assumption that media, instead of reporting the information "objectively," have the ability to affect the content they deliver and set the agenda for …