As I write this editorial, the end of the extraordinary and testing year 2020 is now very near. Normally, as the editor introducing a new issue of the journal, I highlight the important themes running through the articles collected in the issue and reflect on the scholarship we publish as representing a coherent and orderly processes of inquiry. This issue, however, eludes such discipline. And so, we start 2021, our 10th year and 10th volume, with a diversity of places, cultures, and topics. This issue presents the work of scholars from the Global North and South; from multimodal discourse analysis to quantitative analysis of surveys; from public diplomacy, public engagement, through dark tourism, public relations in Ghana, to new directions in public relations theory.

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社论

在我撰写这篇社论时，到2020年非同寻常的测试年即将结束。通常，当编辑介绍一本新期刊时，我会重点介绍贯穿该期刊的文章所涉及的重要主题，并反思我们所发表的学术研究成果，这些研究代表了一个连贯而有序的研究过程。但是，这个问题没有这种纪律性。因此，我们从2021年开始，这是我们的第10年和第10卷，涉及的地点，文化和主题多种多样。本期介绍了来自全球北方和南方的学者的工作；从多模式话语分析到调查的定量分析；从公共外交，公众参与到黑暗的旅游，加纳的公共关系，再到公共关系理论的新方向。