Seeking Truth in International TV News : China, CGTN and the BBC (Paperback)

List of Figures;  List of Tables;  Preface;  List of Abbreviations;  Glossary;  1. A Battle for Global Influence; Everything Comes from Somewhere;  Going Global;  Contested Concepts: Soft Power;  Contested Concepts: Impartiality and Balance;  Contested Concepts: Propaganda;  The Power of the Individual;  The Ritual of International News;  Chapter Overviews;  2. Seeking ‘Truth’ from Facts;  A Tale of Two News Channels;  CCTV in English 1986-2010;  CCTV-News 2010-2016;  CGTN in English 2017?;  BBC World Service Television News 1991-1995;  BBC World and BBC World News 1995?;  Into Africa, the Americas and Europe;  Fractured Worlds;  Comparing the News;  Categorising the Reporting;  Precisions and Limitations;  3. Telling China’s Story Well;  Getting the Story Straight;  Two Caged Tigers: The Bo and Zhou Trials;  China and its Place in the World;  Lunar New Year;  The ‘Two Sessions’ Political Meetings;  Covering (the Rest of) China;  Whose China Story?;  4. Responding to Disaster;  The Bearers of Bad News;  The 2015 Yangtze Capsize;  The 2019 Jiangsu Explosion;  Yangtze to Jiangsu: What Changed?;  5. Covering Political Unrest;  One Region, Two Narratives;  The 2014 Hong Kong ‘Umbrella’ Protests;  The 2019 Hong Kong Extradition Bill Crisis;  CGTN’s New Voice;  Media Wars;  ‘Small Acts of Journalism’?;  Strengthening Frames;  6. Redefining African News;  China’s News for Africa: Experiment or Expedient?;  Changing Africa’s Media Image;  Comparisons in Figures;  Comparisons in Framing;  China in Africa;  Which Journalism, and for Whom?;  The African Exception;  7. Islam, ‘Terror’ and National Identity;  Enemies Without and Within;  Two Stories of Xinjiang, 2018-2021;  Seeking Facts: The 2014 Attacks;  Defining Terrorism;  2015: The Case of Charlie Hebdo;  Manufacturing Context;  8. A Trojan Dragon and its Achilles Heel;  The Battle for Discourse Power;  Seeking Answers: News Content;  Seeking Answers: Power and Partiality;  Sharp Power, Blunt Weapon;  The Achilles Heel;  The Imperilled Centenarian;  The Casualty of Truths;  Never Again ‘News From Nowhere’;  Appendices;  Index