Politically indifferent nationalists?: Chinese youth negotiating political identity in the internet age1

Abstract

A number of incidents in relation to the 2008 Olympic Games, such as the antigovernment protests in Tibet, the disturbances during the international leg of the Olympic torch relay, CNN commentator Jack Cafferty’s remarks against the Chinese and the alleged ‘anti-Chinese’ tendency of CNN and some other western media, sparked a sharp surge of nationalism among Chinese both at home and abroad.