Chinese State Gender Discourse Analysis from People's Daily Articles, 1990-2023

China's state gender discourse is analyzed through 125,532 People's Daily news articles published between 1990 and 2023. The dataset, authored by Jia Wang and released in 2026, uses computational text analysis to trace semantic shifts in how women's roles in public and domestic spheres are framed. The findings highlight a discursive move toward increasingly separate spheres over the past three decades.

Use Cases

• Track changes in state-controlled media framing of women's roles based on the corpus of People's Daily articles.
• Analyze semantic associations between women and public versus domestic vocabularies using computational text analysis.
• Study the adaptation of central state rhetoric to market reforms and welfare restructuring based on the longitudinal news data.
• Examine the reproduction of gendered expectations in contemporary China through official discourse analysis.

Strengths

• Contains 125,532 news articles providing a substantial corpus for longitudinal analysis.
• Covers a 33-year time range (1990-2023) allowing for tracking long-term discursive shifts.
• Focuses on People's Daily, a key source of official state rhetoric in China.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count for the underlying analysis is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect temporal and source bias inherent to the single newspaper corpus.

Provenance

Source

People's Daily news articles.

Collection Method

Computational text analysis applied to a corpus of news articles.

Time Range

1990 to 2023.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-29 04:48:58; freshness should be verified.

Geography

China.