Currency Wars with China and Japan in Western Newsmagazines [Paperback]

1 Setting the Scene: Brewing Tensions  
2 Critical Discourse Analysis and Western Representations of China and Japan 
3 Data Collection and Analysis Procedures 
4 Case Study 1: China (2010) - Social Actors in the Lead Texts 
5 Case Study 2: Japan in 1987 - Social Actors in the Lead Texts 
6 Answering the Research Questions 
7 Discussions and conclusions 

This book explores Chinas currency wars with its trading partners in four Western newsmagazines: Time, The Economist, LExpress, and Der Spiegel.

Damien Ngs book could not be timelier and more solidly researched. At a time when currency wars could wreak havoc to a nations financial system, there is surprisingly little serious study on how such wars were portrayed in the media and shaped public knowledge. Currency Wars with China and Japan in Western Newsmagazines is a refreshing and welcome study in this important field. Damien Ng offers a detailed and incisive analysis of news narratives about two US currency wars against China and Japan. It is worth reading by anyone interested in currency wars and the role of news media to mediate their meanings.

Qing Cao

Associate Professor at Durham University, UK

This book offers the reader an in-depth account of how ideological meaning generation operates in media narratives. By focusing on the genre of newsmagazines, Damien Ng brings a most welcome and innovative contribution to the existing scholarship in the domain of media discourse analysis.