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Revision with unchanged content. The telecommunications and electronic media industries (TEMI) of China have experienced rapid growth since these industries were reorganized and refor med in the market-oriented direction. With the development of glo balization and westernization, China s TEMI, despite a local issue, have already been included in the news agenda of Western media and observed worldwide. What was the reality of China s TEMI in the the global environment? What and how did Western news portray the reality of China s TEMI? What more about China s TEMI could be found through academic research than business reports? This book examined such kinds of questions quantitatively and quali tatively. Grounded in the theoretical frameworks of the agenda-setting theory, the framing theory, the reality constructed by media, and deter minants on foreign news coverage, questions about China s TEMI were inves tigated for tracking the reality and trends over time, especially how China s TEMI were framed in Western news. This book is addressed to telecom and media industry investors, analysts, and consumers who are involving in China s telecommunication and media development. It is also directed to wards young scholars or research beginners in the field of journalism, com munication and media studies.

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Ph.D.,Ohio University, areas of interest and speciality: international communication, media globalization, media and society, communication technologies and new media.

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