Ye Shiwen, collective memory, and the 2012 London Olympic games: notes on the production and consumption of national victimhood

Pu, Haozhou; Giardina, Michael D.

doi:10.1080/17430437.2015.1067775

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“…More studies have recently been conducted in East Asia to compensate for the lack of knowledge of the geographical areas outside of the West. For example, Pu and Giardina (2016) focused on the Chinese swimmer Ye Shiwen, Pu (2016) on the former Chinese NBA player Yao Ming, Pu et al (2019) on the former Chinese professional tennis player Li Na, Shin et al (2022) on the South Korean hockey team, and Yang (2023) on two Chinese Olympians, Eileen Gu, and Quan Hongchan.…”

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The “Descendant of Dragon” or an “American Dreamer”? The Flow of Identity in the Media Discourse of Eileen Gu Between China and the US

Zhang,

Shi

2023

Communication & Sport

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Identity in sports forms a key stage in which globalization is both constituted and resisted and where various contentions and nuanced dynamics remain to be unpacked. In this paper, we examined the media’s ability, from China and the US separately, to construct and deconstruct the national identity of a naturalized athlete, Eileen Gu (Gu Ailing), an American-born Chinese athlete, during the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games. By combining frame analysis with critical discourse analysis (CDA), salient differences were found in terms of the media frames and discourses used by China and the US in their adoption and interpretations of “sports role”, “ethnic role”, “social role”, and “entertainment role”. Furthermore, we pointed out that the national media from both countries simultaneously attempt to legitimize their stance on Gu’s national identity and stress the maximization of each nation’s own interest. The findings shed light on our existing understanding of the complex identity of naturalized athletes in the context of globalization and argue that media discourses, as constructed by the two countries, remain deeply rooted in an overdetermined East-West binary.

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The “Descendant of Dragon” or an “American Dreamer”? The Flow of Identity in the Media Discourse of Eileen Gu Between China and the US

Zhang,

Shi

2023

Communication & Sport

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“…To the public, the government rationalizes the presence of nation and becomes the only legitimate unity. Nationalism as a state-cultivated ideology was thus extensively promoted to underpin such legitimacy of the sovereignty (Pu & Giardina, 2016). Although declining to represent the nation in fulfilling the government’s propagandist obligation, Li Na maintains the other part of Chinese citizenship/identity in the public often saying she is “proud of being a Chinese.” She once publicly responded to the critics on her alleged rejection of “playing for the nation” as she said, “I hold the Chinese passport and they ran up Chinese national flag when I won the championship.” 4 Unlike many global athletes who capitalize their “flexible citizenship” in a way of diluting cultural identities (see the example of Martina Hingis in Giardina, 2001), Li Na’s repudiation of the nation casts out the singularity of citizenship reinforced by state sovereignty but presents an alternative view of the nation by disarticulating and rearticulating the mutations in sovereignty and citizenship.…”

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Flying Solo: Globalization, Neoliberal Individualism, and the Contested Celebrity of Li Na

Newman

Giardina

2017

Communication & Sport

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In this article, we examine the local–global celebrity politics of former Chinese professional tennis player Li Na. We locate Li Na as representative of a growing class of Chinese celebrities who display both extraordinary popularity and enormous marketability. At the same time, Li Na’s noted “rebelliousness”—most especially her “fiery” personality and overt public repudiation of the Chinese communist state—has made her a deeply politicized if not polarizing figure. In this study, we position Li Na as a symbolic body characterized by professionalism, individualism, and commercialism within Chinese media. Further, we investigate the representation, mediation, and consumption of her unique celebrity identity and the cultural politics of the danfei (the “fly solo”) policy in resonance to the decentralization of state power in China. We conclude by suggesting that Li Na’s rebelliousness symbolizes the core values of a growing consensus for neoliberalism in China; that is, it is her rejection of being Chinese (state) that reestablishes herself as Chinese (autonomous), which signifies fundamental social transitions in China intertwined with the embracement of the global economy and a reimagination of the nation.

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Ye Shiwen, collective memory, and the 2012 London Olympic games: notes on the production and consumption of national victimhood

Cited by 2 publications

References 24 publications

The “Descendant of Dragon” or an “American Dreamer”? The Flow of Identity in the Media Discourse of Eileen Gu Between China and the US

The “Descendant of Dragon” or an “American Dreamer”? The Flow of Identity in the Media Discourse of Eileen Gu Between China and the US

Flying Solo: Globalization, Neoliberal Individualism, and the Contested Celebrity of Li Na

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