TY - JOUR
T1 - Talking Past Each Other: Chinese and Western Discourses on Ethnic Conflict
AU - Ji, Fengyuan
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - When violent ethnic conflict erupted in Xinjiang in July 2009, the official Chinese media and most Western news outlets agreed on many basic facts, but contextualized those facts within contrasting discourses. The Chinese media reasserted the established Party line on Xinjiang in discourses that served both domestic and diplomatic purposes. Western accounts, by contrast, were influenced by discourses linked to the West's self-image and world view. This paper will discuss both Chinese and Western public discourses on the riots, and it will make some suggestions about their relationship to opinion beyond the political and media elites.
AB - When violent ethnic conflict erupted in Xinjiang in July 2009, the official Chinese media and most Western news outlets agreed on many basic facts, but contextualized those facts within contrasting discourses. The Chinese media reasserted the established Party line on Xinjiang in discourses that served both domestic and diplomatic purposes. Western accounts, by contrast, were influenced by discourses linked to the West's self-image and world view. This paper will discuss both Chinese and Western public discourses on the riots, and it will make some suggestions about their relationship to opinion beyond the political and media elites.
U2 - 10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.10.318
DO - 10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.10.318
M3 - Article
VL - 155
SP - 434
EP - 441
JO - Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
JF - Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
ER -