20–22 Nov 2026
The WINC Aichi
Asia/Tokyo timezone

When Women Appear, Who Speaks? Women’s Day in China’s Press

21 Nov 2026, 17:00
20m
The WINC Aichi

The WINC Aichi

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

Authors

Patrick Kiernan (Meiji University) Dr Theron Muller (Waseda University Faculty of Human Sciences) Zimao Xiao (Waseda University)

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