Perceiving Asia, Perceiving Europe
Perceiving Asia, Perceiving Europe
How do South Korean newspapers portray meetings of Asian and European leaders? How does German quality media present China? In her first academic publication asiastudies' Yvonne Sommerauer gives an empirical analysis.
Representations of Euro-Asian relations in 2010: South Korean newspapers report on ASEM and German newspapers on Asia (especially China)
By Yvonne Sommerauer and Barnard Turner
Empirical studies of EU-East Asian relationships as depicted in the media are increasingly moving into the foreground of discursive international relations analysis concentrated on the ASEM process. Yet region-to-region perceptions are still largely conceived within national, historical and linguistic prisms which are only gradually transferring into trans-regional ones. This working paper considers two interrelated moments, as indicated in the title, and hopes to make a modest contribution to the academic study of the construction of perceptions as a necessary precondition of and complement to an emerging sense of a common, shared and mutually beneficial inter-regional cooperation.
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