Chinese narratives on 2015 terrorist attack in France (original) (raw)

2018, Franco-Korean Workshop Rennes Institute of Political Studies

The idea of this modest study about Chinese media narratives of the recent terrorist attacks in France dates back a few days after the Charlie-Hebdo mass killing by the Kouachi brothers on January the seven two thousands fifteen. I had to give a course on Chinese history and I thought that I couldn't avoid to talk about those events with my students. However, I didn't know how to talk about it with them. I faced this tragedy as a human being and a citizen like them, not a teacher. I didn't want to give them any lesson, to tell them what to think about it. Plus, It was a course about China, which has nothing to do with France. So, I found that it could be interesting for them and for me to have a decentered reading of those attacks. We were, in France, at the heart of the events, submerged not only by feelings and emotions but also by a continuous flow of images and discourses about those crimes. So, I found interesting to take a step aside by reading and analyzing what the Chinese press had to say about those attacks. Another reason of the pertinence of a decentered reading