The 2008 Tibet Riots: Competing perspectives, divided group protests and divergent media narratives

This chapter explores the contending interpretations of riots that took place in Lhasa, Tibet in the lead-up to the Beijing Olympics in 2008 as they were presented by the British elite television news and online newspapers and the Xinhua News Agency and China Central Television. The riots took place...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Li, C., Montgomery, Lucy
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Peter Lang 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/42373