Xinhua - olhos, ouvidos e voz da China

Abstract

Xinhua - New China in Mandarin - is a state journalistic institution of the People's Republic of China and the biggest center of news and distribution of information of the country. The focus of this paper is to identify the agency´s interlocution with China’s internal and external public), through the dialogue between Xinhua and these public, in order to verify if the agency became an instrument of legitimation of Chinese Communist Party - CCP. The hypothesis of this study is not only to verify if the Party, when perceiving a legitimacy deficit, tries to respond with an ideological and a media production, but also the importance of Xinhua in this process. One searches to study the vehicle of news operating in two directions: from China to the world – how international readers have access to Chinese information filtered by this agency - and from the world to China – how the agency filters the international information to Chinese readers. The method used in the research is based on Analysis of Speech, through the mapping of voices and senses identification in the accompaniment of news of the Xinhua - throughout its Internet´s database and blogs. The aim of the research is to make a collection of news from the agency and from the respective “answers” in blogs. The Internet was chosen as vehicle of research for two reasons: first because it is the most accessible media through where the research could be carried (due to difficulties with language and distance) and also because it is the most used mean of communication for the Chinese to express opinions about the government