This course is designed to provide students with the ability to analyse the major issues of international communication in larger contexts. It takes a comparative case-study and project-based approach to investigating how China is represented by selected world media, especially in relation to critical events. The case studies are embedded in interdisciplinary contexts, focusing on major issues such as nationalism and globalisation, the political, economic, and cultural underpinnings of media representations, and the forces behind the production and dissemination of news amongst various communication systems around the world.