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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Mochtak, Michal
• Turcsanyi, Richard Q.

Titel

Studying Chinese Foreign Policy Narratives: Introducing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Press Conferences Corpus

Ist Teil von

• Chinese journal of political science, 2021-12, Vol.26 (4), p.743-761

Ort / Verlag

Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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).