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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 17 How the Guardian and the Times transmit its sense of value: the content analysis of reports about Sichuan earthquake from the perspective of framing theory Abstract This article analyzed a series of reports of two UK main media (the Guardian and the Times) about the Sichuan earthquake from the perspective of three-level framing (namely high-level framing, middle-level framing and low-level framing).This study show that both the Guardian and the Times approached a negative framing to report the actions and the performances of Chinese Government and even the praise for Chinese Government was channeled into the Western discourse system.Therefore,the negative attitudes towards Chinese Government(at some point,and China) was intentionally and deliberately contrived and engineered.The conclusions of this study would helps in terms of the construction of the national image of China and the understanding of the stereotyped image transmitted by the non-Chinese media industry. Introduction When reading a newspaper,people tend to regard the content as objective and?impersonal.In effect, however,a piece of news can be framed via the concrete framing process to influence the readers’ views towards the events. An abundance of research by Bateson (1955)and Goffman(1974),who later introduced the framing theory to the Communication studies,has already proven that the seemingly objective newspaper can indoctrinate certain sense of value through three different ways:the events it presents in the newspaper(viz. agenda setting) and the way it arrange the columns of a printed sheet(viz. framing of layout) and the texts — especially verbs and adjectives— it uses to describe the events (viz. text analysis). Hence this study will demonstrate the ways the main newspaper media in the United Kingdom frame its series of reports regarding the natural disaster taking place in China in 2008.Intent on filling the gap in the field, this study will analyze from the frami