Citation Suggestion
Please use the following Persistent Identifier (PID) to cite this document:
https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:18-4-171
Exports for your reference manager
"Das olympische Feuer brennt. Und mit ihm lodert das Misstrauen": die Chinaberichterstattung während der Olympischen Sommerspiele in Beijing 2008
"The Olympic torch burns, and great suspicion blazes": China narratives in the German media during the 2008 summer
[journal article]
Abstract 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 durin... view more
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.... view less
Der Autor untersucht die China-Darstellung in führenden deutschen Tages- und Wochenzeitungen während der Sommer-Olympiade 2008 in Peking.
Keywords
dictatorship; foreign policy; Olympic Games; human rights; Federal Republic of Germany; stereotype; daily paper; weekly; China; reporting
Classification
Print Media
Method
qualitative empirical; empirical
Free Keywords
Social Sciences; Print Media; International Cultural Relations; Sozialwissenschaften; Printmedien; Internationale Kulturbeziehungen; Beijing; Present; Peking
Document language
German
Publication Year
2009
Page/Pages
p. 161-180
Journal
Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 38 (2009) 1
ISSN
1868-4874
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works