China’s narrative of the fight against COVID-19: a case study of the representation of social actors in China Keywords

Since the outbreak of coronavirus pandemic, Chinese political leadership has devoted substantial efforts to shape, through media and institutional discourses, a specific narrative its response crisis, framing it as fight in which people, under Xi Jinping Communist Party, promptly came together defeat virus.
 The present paper examines this dominant focusing on language section against COVID-19 multilingual online platform China Keywords, project run by State Party-affiliated institutions. Drawing theoretical background analytical tools from Critical Discourse Studies, provides an analysis discursive representation social actors constructed tool. shows how different strategies employed represent contribute reinforce constitutive elements leadership’s events early 2020. Moreover, argues that Keywords topic should be understood one products multifaceted “tell China’s Covid-19 story well,” both domestically internationally.