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Introduction

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Part I: Theorizing images

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A constructivist approach: images as stereotypes

Pickering, Michael. 2001. Stereotyping: The Politics of Representation. New York: Palgrave. (Chapter 1,2)

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A constructivist approach: images as stereotypes

Pickering, Michael. 2001. Stereotyping: The Politics of Representation. New York: Palgrave. (Chapter 3,4)

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Orientalism

Said, Edward W. 1978. Orientalism. New York: Penguin Paperbacks. (Chapter 1: I,II,III)

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Occidentalism

Buruma, Ian and Margalit, Avishai. 2004. Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies. London: Penguin.

(Chapter 1,2,3)

Part II: Contextualizing images

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Invited talk

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China in Western imagination/the West in Chinese imagination

1. Pan, Chengxin (2004) ‘The "China Threat" in American self-imagination: the discursive construction of Other as power politics’, Alternatives: Global, Local, Political 29(3): 305-331.

2. Ho, P. (2003) ‘Performing the “Oriental”: professionals and the Asian model minority myth’, Journal of Asian American Studies, 6(2), 149-175.

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Representing birth tourism: conflicting views

1. Wang, Sean (2017) “Fetal Citizens? Birthright Citizenship, Reproductive Futurism, and the Panic over Chinese Birth Tourism in Southern California”, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 35 (2), 263-280.


2. Harrington, John (2005) “Citizenship and the Biopolitics of Post-Nationalist Ireland”, Journal of Law and Society, Vol. 32, No. 3 (Sep., 2005), pp. 424-449.

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Inter-racial image construction: a gender perspective

1. Knowles, Caroline and Alexander, Claire, eds. 2005. Making Race Matter: Bodies, Space and Identity. London: Palgrave Macmillan. (Chapter2, 8)


2. Darling-Wolf, Fabienne (2003) “Media, class, and Western influence in Japanese women’s conceptions of attractiveness”, Feminist Media Studies 3(2): 153-172.


3. Darling-Wolf, Fabienne (2004) “Sites of attractiveness: Japanese women and westernized representations of feminine beauty”, Critical Studies in Media Communication 21(4): 325-345.

Part III: Utilizing images

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Research proposal writing

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Branding cities, regions, and nations

Anholt, Simon. 2007. Competitive Identity: The New Brand Management for Nations, Cities and Regions. [Electronic resource] Houndmills, Basingtoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. (Chapter 1,2,3,4)

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Case study: UNESCO Creative Cities

1. Evans, G. (2009) “Creative cities, creative spaces and urban policy”, Urban Studies 46(5-6): 1003-1040.


2. Bolognani, Marta (2012) “Good culture, bad culture……no culture! The implications of culture in urban regeneration in Bradford, UK”, Critical Social Policy 32(4): 618-635.

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Case study: sports, nations, and regions

1. Cho, Younghan. "Unfolding sporting nationalism in South Korean media representations of the 1968, 1984 and 2000 Olympics." Media, culture & society 31.3 (2009): 347-364.


2. Heinz Housel, Teresa. "Australian nationalism and globalization: Narratives of the nation in the 2000 Sydney Olympics’ opening ceremony." Critical Studies in Media Communication 24.5 (2007): 446-461.

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End of term presentation

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End of term presentation

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Write-up and submission