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Media type:
E-Book
Title:
"Das olympische Feuer brennt. Und mit ihm lodert das Misstrauen": die Chinaberichterstattung während der Olympischen Sommerspiele in Beijing 2008
Other titles:
"The Olympic torch burns, and great suspicion blazes": China narratives in the German media during the 2008 summer
Footnote:
Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Journal of Current Chinese Affairs ; 38 (2009) 1 ; 161-180
Description:
This paper focuses on the description of China in leading German daily and weekly newspapers during the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. On the basis of a brief outline of the main China narratives in German media since the 1950s, this paper analyses China-related articles which were published during the period August 8-15, 2008. It argues that reports on China are mostly based on well established German notions of China and centre around the image of a despotic and/or dangerous China. Therefore, they primarily refer back to the source culture and contain little information of value regarding the target culture.