The Football Dream of a Sleeping Dragon: Media Framing(s), East–West Geopolitics, and the Crisis of...

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Beteiligte: Liu, Zheng, Chen, Ryan, Newman, Joshua I.
In: Communication & Sport, 9, 2021, 1, S. 55-87
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SAGE Publications
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Umfang: 55-87
ISSN: 2167-4795
2167-4809
DOI: 10.1177/2167479519852141
veröffentlicht in: Communication & Sport
Sprache: Englisch
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Kollektion: SAGE Publications (CrossRef)
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<jats:p> Much like the nation as a whole, the development of football in China has accelerated at unprecedented rates in recent years. The investment toward, participation in, and consumption of the sport has surged in the years following the Chinese Communist Party’s implementation of major 2015 reforms intended to (1) develop the domestic professional football league, (2) grow the sport’s popularity among the country’s 1.4 billion population, (3) increase youth participation, (4) develop the national team to be the best team in Asia, and (5) aggressively bid for a men’s FIFA World Cup. Despite these significant levels of State and private investment theretoward, there are still significant concerns within the Chinese and international media publics about the footballing nation—specifically as related to the performance of the Chinese men’s national team. In this article, we present a comparative analysis of Chinese- and English-language news media representations that frame how east and west media publics might “read” various aspects of Chinese football (commercial, cultural, ideological, etc.). In so doing, we identify and analyze major themes which, as popularized in different popular media contexts, articulate the men’s national team’s performance to broader (inter)national anxieties about the state of football and the geopolitical trajectories of the People’s Republic. </jats:p>