Perigo amarelo? Uma discussão sobre o imaginário da cultura chinesa a partir de análises de matérias jornalísticas da BBC Brasil no início da crise da COVID-19

Abstract

This work seeks to problematize how China was narrated, from its socio-historical aspects, by the BBC Brasil digital newspaper, during the COVID-19 emergency. From a theoretical-methodological perspective that understands communication from the relationship between narrative, culture and temporality, the research collected and analyzed the articles published in the vehicle during the first months of the virus' emergence (December 2019 and January 2020). With this analysis, we sought to point out, in a contextual way, how the narratives about China, within this context of journalistic coverage of the health crisis, crossed and highlighted understandings around Chinese culture, insofar as they constructed and shared meanings about the ways of life in the Asian country. In this way, we were able to observe how the shock caused by COVID-19 became a key to interpreting tensions and disputes, which crossed both individual and collective notions of normality, and the journalistic institution's own orders.