China-Related Economic Newspaper Articles from FAZ and SZ, 2010–2024

7,279 China-related newspaper articles from the German publications Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) and Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) in economy-related sections. The dataset was created by Yinchun Bai and is hosted on Harvard Dataverse. It covers the period from 2010 to 2024 and includes codes used for machine-assisted analyses.

Use Cases

• Analyze media framing of China's economic policies based on the collection of newspaper articles.
• Train topic models on economic discourse related to China using the machine-assisted analysis codes.
• Conduct longitudinal sentiment analysis on China's economic news coverage over the 14-year period.
• Study comparative media narratives between two major German newspapers (FAZ and SZ) on China.

Strengths

• 7,279 articles provide a substantial corpus for text analysis.
• Covers a 14-year time range (2010–2024) for longitudinal study.
• Focuses on two specific, influential German newspapers (FAZ and SZ) for comparative analysis.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset's scope is limited to two specific newspaper sources, which may not represent broader media discourse.

Provenance

Source

Harvard Dataverse, author Yinchun Bai.

Collection Method

Collection of newspaper articles from Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) and Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) economy-related sections.

Time Range

2010–2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-26 23:10:59; freshness should be verified.

Geography

China (as subject), Germany (as source of publications).