Nancy Xiuzhi Liu is Associate Professor in Translation Studies at the School of Education and English, University of Nottingham Ningbo China.Shixin Ivy Zhang is Full Professor in Journalism Studies at the School of International Communications, University of Nottingham Ningbo China.Zhen Troy Chen is Associate Professor in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China.Wan Hu is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Literary and Translation Studies at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China.Weijian Huang is a fully funded PhD candidate at the University of Nottingham’s China and UK campuses.

• 1 Introduction to Chinese News Discourse in the Digital era2 Geopolitical Allies or Adversaries? The Construction of Geopolitical Identity in Chinese Media’s Coverage of the Russia-Ukraine War3 Media Type and News Framing across Issues: A Comparative Perspective4 Cooperation or Competition? Political Narratives of US-China High-level Exchanges5 News Frames as Identity Work: How Chinese and Australian News Media Construct State Identities through the Belt and Road Initiative6 Media systems in Hong Kong and the Mainland of China: A corpus-assisted comparative analysis of news reports from China Daily and The Standard on the Shanghai COVID-19 lockdown7 Intermedia agenda setting: A case study of journalistic quotations about COVID-198 Aligning Academic Curriculum with the Evolving Digital Media Landscape: An Examination of Professional Competences for Trans-editors9 Multimodal Reconstruction of Information in Audio-visual News Translation: A Case Study of Videos on Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)10 A Corpus-Based Approach to Chinese Diplomatic News Translation Pedagogy in the Digital Era