Dragon or Panda

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Dragon or Panda?

• Image of China in the Western Media

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Dragon and Panda always appear as Images of
China
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Dragon or Panda?The two sides of a coin?

• Dragon
• powerful, evil and a threat to the west

• Panda
• peace Loving, cute and weak in a way

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China Threat fiction or reality?
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Westerns Concern of Rising China

• Is the concern legitimate?

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A case study

• Media coverage on Olympics torch tour incident
  in Paris
• Responses from Chinese people

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Round One

• The biased media coverage
• The angry reaction of Chinese

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Round Two

• The media coverage of angry Chinese
• The response of Chinese people

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The hidden truth

• New generation of Chinese are products of
  western education instead of being brain washed
  by Chinese government
• They are good at English and defend China in the
  western ways

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Dragon or panda? A traditional Chinese
interpretation

• For westerners
• It is usually either or
• For Chinese
• It can be both
• Panda and Dragon can live in the same entity
• A dynamic balance instead of a static balance

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Yin and Yang in the same entity
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