000K utf8 1100 2021$c2021-06 1500 eng 2050 urn:nbn:de:hbz:464-20210630-113544-1 2051 10.17185/duepublico/74525 3000 Noesselt, Nele 3010 Eckstein, Tanja 3010 Priupolina, Elizaveta 4000 Decrypting China’s Self-Image as “Great Power” [Noesselt, Nele] 4209 This paper explores the visual representation of the Chinese concept of daguo (literally: great power/major power) based on the 2017 CCTV documentary Daguo Waijiao大国外交 (Major Power Diplomacy). Drawing on a combination of select streams of National Role Theory (NRT) and Social Identity Theory (SIT), the paper assesses the Chinese role claims and visualized role performance vis-à-vis two significant others, the Soviet Union/Russia and the US. The coding of select cases of the PRC’s daguo role enactment sheds light on the conceptual, socio-psychological underpinnings of China’s self-identity and global status reflections in the 21st century and hence offers some rare insight into the black box of the hermetically closed Chinese party-state. 4950 https://doi.org/10.17185/duepublico/74525$xR$3Volltext$534 4950 https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:464-20210630-113544-1$xR$3Volltext$534 4961 https://duepublico2.uni-due.de/receive/duepublico_mods_00074525 5051 320 5550 China 5550 Daguo 5550 National role theory 5550 Russia 5550 Social identity theory 5550 US 5550 visualized narratives