本文基于自建语料库开展批评话语分析，从及物性视角“中国对 Ｘ 做什么”，研究美国大报中的中国经济崛起形象。研究发现，该形象主要被表征为三种参与者角色，即“买进者”“赶超者”和“建设者”；角色建构背后的评价意义微妙混杂，充满意识形态倾向性。这与我们之前从及物性视角“Ｘ 对中国做什么”的研究结果，相互印证，相互补充。这既为连贯理解美国对华话语的流变提供了语言证据，也为国家形象研究提供了切实可行的分析方法。

This paper aims to conduct a corpus-based critical discourse analysis of discursive construction of China’s image of economic rise in the U.S. broadsheets by adopting a transitivity perspective of “what did China do to X”. Findings indicate that China’s image of economic rise is represented as being related to three participant roles, i.e. “Buyer”, “Surpasser” and “Builder”; the evaluative meanings behind the role constructions are delicate and mixed, entangled with ideological biases. These findings are found to confirm and complement the results of our previous research, conducted from the other transitivity perspective of “what did X do to China”. This not only provides linguistic evidence for a coherent understanding of the evolution of the U.S. discourse about China, but also provides a feasible and effective analytical method for researching national image.