Tang Minyao is from Chongqing. She received her PhD in journalism from the University of Sheffield in the UK. Since April 2021, she has worked at the School of Journalism and Communication at Zhengzhou University. From 2015 to 2020, she worked as an assistant researcher at the British Journalism History Center.

Her research interests are international communication and news discourse. During her PhD studies, she mainly focused on the metaphorical construction of national image, with an aim to analyze China's representation in mainstream financial media abroad both qualitatively and quantitatively.

Her main publications include:

1. Conboy, M. and Tang, M. (2016). Core Blighty? How Journalists Define Themselves Through Metaphor: British Journalism Review 2011–2014. Journalism Studies, pp.1-12. (SSCI journal)

2. Tang, M. (2017). Metaphorical Mirrors of the West: China in the British Financial Press. Historia Y Comunicación Social (History of Social Communication), 22(2), pp.397-413. (A&HCI journal)

3. Xu, T. and Tang, M.* (2021). ‘Tell China’ Story Well’: Ethical Orientations of Chinese Journalists in International Reporting, in Price, L., Wyatt, W. and Sanders, K. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Journalism Ethics. London: Routledge. (book chapter)

Her academic conference papers include:

1. Conboy, M. and Tang, M. (2015). “Core Blighty? How Journalists Define Themselves Through Metaphor: British Journalism Review 2011–2014.” Future of Journalism conference, Cardiff University, UK.

2. Tang, M. (2016). “Metaphor and Memory: China in the British Economic Press.” International Association for Media and Communication Research conference (IAMCR), University of Leicester, UK.

3. Tang, M. (2016). “Metaphorical Mirrors of the West: China in the British Economic Press.” Metaphor Festival 2016, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

4. Tang, M. (2017). “National imagination of China in the British Financial Press.” Conference on Historical News Discourse (CHINED VI), University of Sheffield, UK.

5. Tang, M. and Xu, T. (2017). “International Politics: It’s the Economy, (Metaphorically). Metaphors of China in the Financial Press.” International Journal of Press/Politics conference, University of Oxford, UK.