Tech Powerhouse or Tech Threat? An Attitude Analysis of News Reports on Science and Technology in China by China Daily and The New York Times

Siyang Liu — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This study investigates how science and technology (S&T) in China is represented through attitudinal resources by China Daily (CD) and The New York Times (NYT). 215 news articles from CD and 133 from NYT were analyzed according to a revised system of attitude within the appraisal framework. Results show that CD features overwhelmingly positive evaluation, highlighting the value of China’s technologies and scientific research as well as China’s tech strength. The competence of Chinese scientists in striving for innovation excellence is also foregrounded. By contrast, NYT displays both positive and negative attitudes in its reports. On the one hand, it emphasizes China’s prowess and determination in developing high-tech industries as well as the utility of China’s tech products. On the other hand, it depicts China’s sci-tech endeavors as unethical and worrisome, and underlines the weakness and shortcomings of China’s technologies. The significance of this study lies in its focus on the cross-cultural comparison of science news and the media representation of China’s science and technology.

A Comparative Study of Oliver Twist and Jane Eyre with the “Structure of Feeling” — The Contradiction Writing of the Victorian Era

Jing Hou, Lingling Xu, Tao Tao — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Raymond Williams, an important British Marxist literary theorist, coined the term “Structure of Feeling” to analyze the shared personal feeling and experiences of people during specific historical periods. This framework reveals unstructured yet pervasive social mentality and emotional responses, offering a unique perspective for interpreting literature from social transition periods. Based on this theory, this study compares Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist (1838) and Charlotte Brontë’ s Jane Eyre (1847), two iconic Victorian-era (1837-1901) works, to explore the shared emotional tensions in 19th-century British industrialization and urbanization. The research demonstrates that both novels sharply criticize structural injustices like the Poorhouse system, class divisions, and gender oppression while compromising with mainstream ideology and values through magic solutions such as kinship redemption, unexpected inheritance of fortune, and marital order. These narratives modes reflect the dynamic tension unique to Victorian era’s transitional period between old and new values. This contradictory nature mirrors Williams’ “Structure of Feeling”, revealing the complex interplay between individual experiences and social structures, as well as the collusion between critical demands and ideological frameworks during social transformation.

Journal of Linguistics and Communication Studies

Tech Powerhouse or Tech Threat? An Attitude Analysis of News Reports on Science and Technology in China by China Daily and The New York Times

A Comparative Study of Oliver Twist and Jane Eyre with the “Structure of Feeling” — The Contradiction Writing of the Victorian Era