FengYuan_Diaoyu_Final_Dec_16

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1、PublicOpiniononWeibo:TheCaseofDiaoyuIslandsDisputeMiaoFengElaineJ.YuanUniversityofIllinois,ChicagoIntroductionThecentury-olddisputebetweenChinaandJapanovertheDiaoyu(Senkaku)islandsinEastChinaSeawasrekindledwhennewsofanattemptbytheJapanesegovernmentto“nationalize”theislandsinSeptember2012incitedst

2、rongresponsesinChina.TheChinesegovernmentquicklydenouncedtheattemptandrefutedJapan’sterritorialclaimovertheislands.GrassrootsactivistsfromHongKongtookthemoreradicalactionoflandingontheislands,whichhadbeenintheeffectivecontrolbyJapan.Yettheagitation,similartothatofpreviousanti-Japanesepopularmovem

3、ents,wasmost1palpableonline.InfuriatedreactionstothenewsonceagaintooktheInternetbystorm.ThischaptertracesandanalyzesthesentimentsandreactionsofChinesecitizenstotheeventsinthedisputeovertheDiaoyuislandsonSinaWeibo,China’slargestsocialmedianetwork.TheInternetandsocialmediahaveemergedinrecentyearsas

4、analternativediscursivespaceforthepublicexpressionofopinionsinChina.Inthecaseofthedispute,theInternetnotonlyprovidedasymbolicspaceforexpressingnationalistsentiments,butalsoservedasaplatformforformulatingandorganizingprotestactions.Theanalysissituatestheobservedpopularsentimentsandopinionsinthestr

5、ucturalconstraintsofhistoricalmemoriessharedbyChineseonlineusers.SuchmemoriesprovidethecontextforunderstandingtheonlinenationalisttendencywithregardtothehistoricaldevelopmentofsovereigntyoftheChinesestate.Theanalysisalsomakesthecasethatthesesentimentsandresponsesnotonlyreflecttheobjectivesocio-ec

6、onomicpositionsoftheonlinepopulationbutalsoresultfromtheirsubjectiveconsciousnessoftheirmaterialpositions.ThischapterfurtherarguesthattheonlineopinionsandvoicesabouttheDiaoyuislandsdisputearevariegatedmanifestationsofbottom-upspontaneouspopularnationalism,whichshouldnotbedismissedassimplyanoutcom

7、eofgovernmentmanipulationorofficialideology.Norcanitbeunderstoodasunified,passiveand2reactive.Instead,theonlineusersdemonstrateuniquecharacteristicsinengagingin3nationalpolitics.WeiboasapublicspaceChina’smediasystemhad