China in the US Imaginary: Tibet, the Olympics, and the 2008 Earthquake

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Notes

1. Using Lexis/Nexis Academic, we searched the New York Times for “China Olympics,” “China Tibet,” “China and modernization,” “China earthquake,” and “China and human rights,” between 1 July 2007 and 1 July 2008. Because of our 2,000 word constraint and the “forum” context, we limit mention of specific articles to a bare minimum, substituting a fuller analysis for descriptions, examples, and citations.

2. In film, for instance, see Gina Marchetti, Romance and the “Yellow Peril”: Race, Sex, and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction (Berkeley: U of California Press, 1993). See also Robert G. Lee, Orientals: Asian Americans in Popular Culture (Philadelphia: UP, 1999), 246, n. 4; and Gary Okihiro, Margins and Mainstreams: Asians in American History and Culture (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1994), 119.

3. See Ono, Kent A. and John M. Sloop, Shifting Borders: Rhetoric, Immigration, and California's Proposition 187 (Philadelphia: Temple UP, 2002), 35–42.

4. Andrew Jacobs, “Top Olympic Official Calls Protests a ‘Crisis’ and Chides China on Rights Policies,” 11 April 2008, A6.

5. Protestors argue that China's supply of weaponry to the Sudan indirectly supports genocide in Darfur.

6. Jim Yardley, “Chinese Are Left to Ask Why Schools Crumbled,” 25 May 2008, A1.

7. Keith Bradsher, “Eyes on Olympics (The Wired Kind),” 28 December 2007, C1.

8. Stephanie Clifford, “Coca-Cola Faces Critics of its Olympics Support,” 17 April 2008, C3.

9. Toni Morrison, The Nobel Lecture in Literature (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994), 13.

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Kent A. Ono

Kent A. Ono is Professor of Communications and Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His written and edited work includes Shifting Borders: Rhetoric, Immigration, and California's Proposition 187(with John M. Sloop, 2002), Asian American Studies after Critical Mass(2005), A Companion to Asian American Studies(2005), and Asian Americans and the Media(with Vincent Pham, 2008)

Joy Yang Jiao

Joy Yang Jiao is a graduate student of English at Miami University. Her research field covers rhetoric, intercultural communication, and media studies