Hongtao Li
I got my Ph.D. in communication from City University of Hong Kong in 2010. I am now a Professor in the Journalism School at Fudan University. My research interests include international communication, sociology of news, and media memory.
Supervisors: Chin-Chuan Lee
Supervisors: Chin-Chuan Lee
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figured in the Chinese press since the 1870s, and this collective memory has made London a powerful yet malleable tool for discursive contestation on how to
frame China’s current air pollution problem, which constitutes part of news media’s hegemonic and counter-hegemonic practices. Although the classic images of London as a fog city persist to today, the new narrative centers on the 1952 Great Smog, which was rediscovered and mobilized by Chinese news media to build an historical analogy. In invoking this foreign past, official media use
London to naturalize the smog problem in China and justify the official stance, while commercialized media emphasize the bitter lessons to be learned and call for government action.
figured in the Chinese press since the 1870s, and this collective memory has made London a powerful yet malleable tool for discursive contestation on how to
frame China’s current air pollution problem, which constitutes part of news media’s hegemonic and counter-hegemonic practices. Although the classic images of London as a fog city persist to today, the new narrative centers on the 1952 Great Smog, which was rediscovered and mobilized by Chinese news media to build an historical analogy. In invoking this foreign past, official media use
London to naturalize the smog problem in China and justify the official stance, while commercialized media emphasize the bitter lessons to be learned and call for government action.