哈雷特·阿班:挑战中国幻象的美国职业新闻人

Hallett E. Abend: An American Journalist of Challenging Chinese Imagination

哈雷特·阿班(Hallett E.Abend)是美国大报《纽约时报》20世纪30年代的重要驻华记者,也是美国新闻界塑造和传播近代中国知识和形象的关键人物之一。通过考察阿班在中国十五年间发表于《纽约时报》上的千余篇新闻作品,分析美国专业记者如何塑造一种历史的、典型的中国形象,并揭示此种新闻话语背后所蕴含的政治文化意涵,同时补充描绘20世纪30年代美国主流媒介有关中国认知的多元知识地图。

Hallett E. Abend was one of the most prominent foreign journalists who participated in the construc- tion of the modem China image as the chief correspondent for The New York Times in 1930s. By examining Abend＇s over a thousand reporting pieces about China printed in the New York Times, this paper aims at un- covering how American journalist with the characteristic news discourse scheme framed a typical and historical media image of modern China, and revealing its political and cultural implications as well as enriching the cog- nitive multi - knowledge map of American popular media about China