This book engages with the Chinese mediation of wars and conflicts in the global
environment.Proposing a new cascading media and conflict model it applies this to the studyof
war correspondents from six levels: media-policy relations journalistic objectivity
roleperceptions news framing and peace war journalism news practices and audience.Based on
interviews with 23 Chinese journalists and case study analysis of the Libyan War Syrian War
Afghanistan War and Israeli-Palestinian conflict the book demonstrates thata new breed of
Chinese war correspondents has emerged today. They undergo a complexand nuanced mediated
communication process. Neither traditionally Chinese in theirapproach nor western in their
perceptions they are uniquely pragmatic in negotiating theirroles in a complex web of internal
and external actors and factors. The core ideology seemsto be anti-West in defiance of the US
hegemony and the bias of global media as well asneutral-Muslims.Exploring the role perceptions
values norms and practices of contemporary Chinese warcorrespondents who go outside China to
bring the 'distant culture' back home this text is keyreading for scholars and students in
international journalism international communication war and peace studies international
relations and Chinese studies.
