How Do the Media, Popular Culture, and Literature Reflect National Character, Stereotypes, and Perceptions?
“The Chinese tendency to think in terms of analogy to the family system applies also to their way of thinking about international relations…Family imagery is confined to children’s books, similar thinking appears in newspaper references…and film.” — John Hast Weaklund, “Chinese Family Images in International Relations,” and “An Analysis of Seven Cantonese Films” in Margaret Mead and Rhoda Metraux, ed., The Study of Culture at a Distance (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2000) Chaired by: Tim White, journalist, executive television and film producer • Stephen Hess, Political Scientist, The Brookings Institution, author, International News & Foreign Correspondents • Edgardo C. Krebs, Anthropologist, Research Associate, Smithsonian Institution, occasional contributor to La Nacion, Buenos Aires, and Times Literary Supplement • Mary-Jane Deeb, Arab World Area Specialist, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress • Barbara Mossberg, President Emeritus, Goddard College
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