Speaker
Zimao Xiao
(Waseda University)
Description
Waseda University GSS. This presentation examines how mainland Chinese newspapers localize International Women’s Day and position women through social roles, attributed voice, and represented agency. It will compare a planned stratified sample of 400 articles from 1924–1952 and 2000–2025 using quantitative content and qualitative discourse analysis. A media-literacy task invites language learners to examine quotation, grammatical agency, and evaluation by asking who appears, who speaks, who acts, and who defines the commemoration.
| Title | When Women Appear, Who Speaks? Women’s Day in China’s Press |
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Authors
Patrick Kiernan
(Meiji University)
Dr
Theron Muller
(Waseda University Faculty of Human Sciences)
Zimao Xiao
(Waseda University)