Abstract
The Chinese government and its U.S. partners have established more than 70 Confucius Institutes in the United States since 2004. This study focuses on how the New York Times coverage of Confucius Institutes functioned as a narrative of introduction of the institute in the U.S. press. The culturological construction of news that this analysis reveals is one of reportage generated in a culturally charged context of politically constructed discourse. Neither communicating the symbolic significance of an emerging China narrative nor analyzing its Western and global implications was evidenced as the New York Times relied on a 20th-century journalistic paradigm and its anti-communist discourse. The news leader told an American audience of the coming of the Confucius Institute through a continuance of a narrative situated in the existing “China Frame,” enabled by the paper's reliance on tradition, mythology, and the journalistic practices of a bygone news culture.
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