The difference in the image of the panda under the perspective of China and the West i

In the past ten years, the image of giant pandas under the perspective of China and the West has become increasingly expanded.In China, pandas are round and cute, wearing hard shells, but in Western media, the image of panda has gradually become a symbol of autocraticism of muscles and huge overbearing.

Chinese panda diplomacy for nearly 70 years has made pandas a highly political symbol.With the intensification of economic and geopolitical competition between China and the West, the image of the panda in Western media has also changed intuitively.

From the 1970s to the 2010s, the pictures of giant pandas with Western leaders were not uncommon in Western media. The Nixon lady Pat, former British Prime Minister Edward Heath, former US President Clinton, former No. 1Mrs. Michelle, former German Prime Minister Merkel, Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau and other political figures have taken a photo with pandas.But such pictures become extremely rare after 2018.

The image of Panda in Western media comics and illustrations has also changed dramatically.According to the newspaper, the British Media Economic Man Weekly has appeared 10 pandas in the cover comics from 1997 to the present. In March 1999, the cover was a small but uncle in the United States with a small panda holding a weapon;In the cover comics in September 2017, the panda is huge and strong, but the lovely dark circles around the panda eyes are painted as a robber eye mask.

Selina Lee and senior researcher Ramona Li warning in the analysis article of foreign policy magazines, such visual speed records are effective but dangerous in the analysis article of foreign policy magazines.They reflect the way the United States is portrayed in China. For example, Chinese Daily's comics also often use uncle Sam or the goddess of Liberty to portray the negative image of the United States.This way of visual shortcomings is similar to the practice of the former Soviet Union during the Cold War.

In China, giant pandas have become a symbol of national pride, and it has become a protected and more sensitive topic in Chinese public opinion.Beginning at the end of last year, photos of the giant panda in the United States in the Memphis Zoo in Tennessee, USA, and the hair loss of hair have triggered the Chinese people's crusade of the United States. The rumors of Yaya on the Chinese network continued to be abused.The voices have also continued to rise.

After returning to China in April this year, Chinese officials tried to reduce fires around Yaya's public opinion.The China Panda Protection Research Center issued a statement on April 29 that emphasized the public's excessive anthropomorphic and over empathy to interfere with normal breeding management work, and called on the public to treat the management of giant panda scientifically and rationally, so as not to create rumors, rumors, no rumors, no rumors, no rumors, noRumor.

Some analysts believe that the anti -American emotions boiling in the Yaya incident reflect the huge challenges faced by China when they change the diplomatic line of war wolves and soften the diplomatic image.

Elena Senster, a historian of St. Mary College, California, was judged in an interview with Lianhe Morning Post. The Yaya incident showed that the Chinese people's nationalist ownership of giant pandas and the sense of nationalism.The Chinese government has long described the gift and lease of panda as a gift of the goodwill of the Chinese people, and the panda has become a "panda of the people."

Zhuang Jiaying, an associate professor of the Department of Political Science of the National University of Singapore, analyzed that the competition in the United States and China has heated up, the internal nationalism in China is high, and the restrictions with the circulation of information with the outside world can easily make some events that may not be very special or eye -catching to become a public vent.The focus of emotions.This kind of fierce emotions will not only deepen China's tough image abroad, but also reduce the flexibility of the Chinese government's handling of foreign affairs.