This book is a thorough analysis of the representation of an emerging super power, China, in western elite newspapers. China has become one of the countries that every economic power eager to cooperate with, but how do these newspapers frame and present this country to western audiences? This work adopts five significant cases, including the Tiananmen Square incident in 1989, Taiwan's first Presidential Election in 1996, Hong Kong's handover to China in 1997,the awarding of the Olympic Games to China in 2001, and the spread of SARS in 2003, to examines the image of China, to see how western elite newspapers present this emerging power.