TY - JOUR
T1 - Chinese Pride and European Prejudice
T2 - How Growing Resentment of China Cools Feelings toward Chinese in Europe
AU - Gries, Peter Hays
N1 - Funding Information:
We designed a series of questions for the Sinophone Borderlands 2020 survey to find out (Turcsányi et al, 2020). Funded by the European Regional Development Fund, the Sinophone Borderlands project at Palacký University Olomouc (in the Czech Republic) hired NMS Market Research to conduct a 13-country survey of China attitudes. In September and October 2020, 19,673 European adults aged 18–70 in Czechia (1,506), France (1,530), Germany (1,501), Hungary (1,504), Italy (1,500), Latvia (1,552), Poland (1,503), Russia (1,540), Serbia (1,500), Slovakia (1,502), Spain (1,501), Sweden (1,534), and the United Kingdom (1,500) completed the survey online. The samples were nationally representative with respect to age, gender, education, country region, and settlement density.
Funding Information:
PETER GRIES is the Lee Kai Hung Chair and founding Director of the Manchester China Institute at the University of Manchester, where he is also Professor of Chinese politics. He studies the political psychology of international relations, with a focus on China and the United States. RICHARD TURCSANYI is a Key Researcher at Palacky University Olomouc. This work was supported by European Regional Development Fund Project “Sinophone Borderlands – Interaction at the Edges”, CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000791. Emails: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021/7/27
Y1 - 2021/7/27
N2 - The Chinese government’s cover-up of the origins of the new coronavirus, and its more openly prideful and aggressive foreign and human rights policies, triggered a dramatic deterioration of foreign views of China in 2020. That year also witnessed a significant increase in anti-Chinese/Asian prejudice around the world. Could the former have shaped the latter? Drawing on theories of prejudice and ideology, and using an Autumn 2020 13-nation European survey about China, this paper explores whether increasingly negative attitudes toward Chinese government policies prejudiced European views of local Chinese students, tourists, and communities. It finds substantial evidence of a spillover effect, an effect which is stronger among conservative Europeans than among progressive Europeans more motivated to avoid prejudice. The paper concludes with thoughts on the danger that China’s prideful “wolf warriors” pose for Chinese students, tourists, and local Chinese communities confronting prejudice in Europe today.
AB - The Chinese government’s cover-up of the origins of the new coronavirus, and its more openly prideful and aggressive foreign and human rights policies, triggered a dramatic deterioration of foreign views of China in 2020. That year also witnessed a significant increase in anti-Chinese/Asian prejudice around the world. Could the former have shaped the latter? Drawing on theories of prejudice and ideology, and using an Autumn 2020 13-nation European survey about China, this paper explores whether increasingly negative attitudes toward Chinese government policies prejudiced European views of local Chinese students, tourists, and communities. It finds substantial evidence of a spillover effect, an effect which is stronger among conservative Europeans than among progressive Europeans more motivated to avoid prejudice. The paper concludes with thoughts on the danger that China’s prideful “wolf warriors” pose for Chinese students, tourists, and local Chinese communities confronting prejudice in Europe today.
KW - Anti-Chinese prejudice
KW - Europe-China relations
KW - Ideology
KW - Public opinion
KW - Stereotypes
U2 - 10.1525/as.2021.1397345
DO - 10.1525/as.2021.1397345
M3 - Article
SN - 0004-4687
VL - 61
SP - 742
EP - 766
JO - Asian Survey
JF - Asian Survey
IS - 5
ER -
