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'''Jin Jing''' (]: 金晶; ]: Jīn Jīng; born in 1981 in ], ], ]<ref name=family>Chang, Guoshui and Xiang, Lei {{zh icon}} anhuinews.com, April 10, 2008</ref>
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'''Jin Jing''' ({{zh|c=金晶|p=Jīn Jīng}}; born 1981 in ], ], ]<ref name=family>{{cite web|url=http://ah.anhuinews.com/system/2008/04/10/001989462.shtml|script-title=zh:"最美火炬手"原是合肥女孩！|publisher=Anhuinews.com|date=2008-04-10|accessdate=2008-04-15|author=Chang Guoshui and Xiang Lei|language=Chinese|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080413230835/http://ah.anhuinews.com/system/2008/04/10/001989462.shtml|archive-date=2008-04-13|url-status=dead}}</ref>) is a ] female ] ]. She was a torchbearer carrying the ] amid political protests during the ] in ], ]. According to '']'', she fended off protestors who "threw themselves" at her; most were wrestled away by French police but at least one reached her wheelchair and tried to wrench the torch away.<ref name=abcnews>{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=4634434&page=1|title=Disabled Torch Bearer Becomes Chinese Hero|publisher=ABC News|date=2008-04-11|accessdate=2008-04-14|author=Emma Graham-Harrison}}</ref> Jin has gained national fame in China because of the incident,<ref name=YahooSlide>{{cite web|url=https://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Olympic-Torch-Relay-Beijing-Beijing-Olympic-Games/ss/events/sp/040708olympictorch/im:/080411/photos_ts/2008_04_11t083102_306x450_us_china_olympics_rage/|title=Olympic Torch Relay|publisher=Yahoo News|date=2008-04-11|accessdate=2008-04-14|author=Sally Huang}}</ref> but was attacked on Chinese internet bulletin boards for her stance in the following call to boycott French retailer ] that resulted from public anger toward France.<ref name="China vor den Olympischen Spielen. Der Hass trifft selbst die Helden"/><ref name="astronomy.com.cn"/><ref name="Hero to Traitor: The Difference a Day Makes"/> In contrast, Western media concentrated on how the incident involving Jin Jing ignited Chinese nationalism and claimed that the incident was exploited for propaganda purposes by the state media.<ref name=marianne>"Jin Jing, la handicapée médaille d'or de la guerre des images", ''Marianne'', April 26, 2008, p.22</ref><ref name=associatedpress>
==Background and family==
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Jin Jing was born in 1981, in Hefei, Anhui.<ref name=family>Chang, Guoshui and Xiang, Lei {{zh icon}} anhuinews.com, April 10, 2008</ref>
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==Family and personal life==
Jin had part of her right leg amputated in 1989 when she was in elementary school after a ] was found on her ankle and later underwent a year of ].<ref name=family>Chang, Guoshui and Xiang, Lei {{zh icon}} anhuinews.com, April 10, 2008</ref>
Jin Jing's parents are wage earners. Her father, Jin Jiansheng ({{lang|zh-Hans-CN|金建生}}), is a ] who moved from ] to ] during the ], where he met and married Liu Huayao ({{lang|zh-Hans-CN|刘华瑶}}). Jin was born in 1981, in ], Anhui,<ref name=family /> She has a younger sister, Jin Renyu ({{lang|zh-Hans-CN|金任钰}}).<ref name=chinanews1>{{cite web|url=http://www.chinanews.com.cn/olympic/news/2008/04-14/1220120.shtml|script-title=zh:金晶回家先上舞台 妹妹不开心：本想给她做蛋汤|publisher=Chinanews.com.cn|date=2008-04-14|accessdate=2008-04-15|author=Zhang Zhongjiang|language=Chinese}}</ref>


Jin Jing moved to Shanghai with her family in 1995 and learned ] in a technical secondary school. After graduation she worked as a telephone operator in a hotel in Shanghai.<ref name=family>Chang, Guoshui and Xiang, Lei {{zh icon}} anhuinews.com, April 10, 2008</ref> Jin had part of her right leg ] in 1989 when she was in elementary school after a ] was found on her ankle and later underwent a year of ].<ref name=family /> She moved to ] with her family in 1995 and studied ] in a technical secondary school. After graduation, she worked as a telephone operator in a hotel in Shanghai.<ref name=family /><ref name=life>{{cite web|url=http://www.chinanews.com.cn/ty/zhty/news/2008/04-10/1217412.shtml|script-title=zh:平凡金晶还没有男朋友 十运会后月收入不足千元|publisher=Chinanews.com.cn|date=2008-04-10|accessdate=2008-04-15|author=Zhang Zhongjiang|language=Chinese}}</ref> Jin got married in Shanghai in September 2013.<ref name=life />


==Career== ==Career==
On ], ], the day when ] was elected the host city for ], Jin Jing became a member of the Shanghai ] Team<ref name=career>David {{Zh icon}} The Official Website of the Torch Relay, April 8, 2008</ref>. On July 13, 2001, the day when ] was elected the host city for ], Jin Jing became a member of the Shanghai ] Team. Later on she joined the ].<ref name=career>{{cite web|url=http://torchrelay.beijing2008.cn/cn/journey/paris/news/n214297194.shtml |script-title=zh:残疾人火炬手金晶用残缺身体保护奥运圣火顺利传递 |publisher=The Official Website of the Torch Relay |date=2008-04-08 |accessdate=2008-04-15 |language=Chinese |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080411230728/http://torchrelay.beijing2008.cn/cn/journey/paris/news/n214297194.shtml |archivedate=2008-04-11 }}</ref>


Her career as a fencer is summarized as the following table: Her career as a fencer is summarized in the following table:


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| ] ||align="center"|National Table Tennis and Fencing Games||Nanjing, China ||Women's Wheelchair Fencing Foil ||bgcolor=CC9966|bronze ||<ref name=career>David {{zh icon}} The Official Website of the Torch Relay, April 8, 2008</ref> | 2005 ||align="center"|National Table Tennis and Fencing Games||Nanjing, China ||Women's Wheelchair Fencing Foil ||bgcolor=CC9966|bronze ||<ref name=career />
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| Women's Wheelchair Fencing Foil ||5 th | Women's Wheelchair Fencing Foil ||5 th
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On May 6, 2008, Jin Jing was named as the ambassador of a Paralympic cheering group to help publicize Paralympic sports worldwide in the runup to the ] in Beijing.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-05/06/content_8117013.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080824170513/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-05/06/content_8117013.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 24, 2008|title=Jin Jing becomes ambassador of Paralympic cheering group|publisher=Xinhua NEWS|date=2008-05-06|accessdate=2008-05-06}}</ref>

On September 6, she brought the Paralympic torch into the ] during the ] of the Paralympic Games.<ref>, ''Danwei'', August 29, 2008</ref><ref>, CBC, September 6, 2008</ref><ref>, Xinhua, September 9, 2009</ref> On this occasion, she "made headlines in the Chinese media", according to the ].<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080920074050/http://www.france24.com/fr/20080830-chine-escrimeuse-handicapee-fiasco-flamme-paris-relais-jeux-paralympiques |date=2008-09-20 }}, Agence France-Presse, August 30, 2008 (with France 24 video)</ref>


==2008 Summer Olympics torch relay== ==2008 Summer Olympics torch relay==
{{main|2008 Summer Olympics torch relay}} {{main|2008 Summer Olympics torch relay}}
In 2007, Jin Jing turned up for the selective trial, titled ''You Are the Torchbearer'', which was organized by ] and was chosen to be an Olympic torchbearer. On ], ], she was the third torchbearer carrying the ] during the relay in Paris, amidst protests and physical attempts to snatch the torch by demonstrators.<ref>, official website of the Olympic torch relay, April 8, 2008</ref> She was escorted by ] police officers, but when a protestor carrying the ] rushed at her, according to ]-based '']'', she protected the torch with her body. During the rest of the relay in Paris she continued to protect her possession of the torch from attempts by protestors.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sinovision.net/news.php?act=details&col_id=3&news_id=43532|title=袭击金晶的人 头天才在伦敦被捕过|publisher=Sinovision|date=2008-04-10|accessdate=]|language=Simplified Chinese}}</ref> Jin was quoted by ]-controlled newspaper '']'' as saying that she "would die to protect the torch."<ref name=ChinaDaily>{{cite web|url=http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-04/14/content_6614357.htm|title=Golden girl lifts a nation|publisher=China Daily|date=]|accessdate=2008-04-14}}</ref> On ], ], the ] president ] said "What shocked me most is when someone tried to rob the torch off a wheelchair athlete, a disabled athlete who was unable to defend the torch. This is unacceptable."<ref>Graham-Harrison, Emma ''The Guardian'', April 11, 2008</ref>


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Jin has been celebrated first on ]s and soon in Chinese media.<ref>Ramzy, Austin ''Time'', April 9, 2008</ref><ref name=xinhua0410>Liang, Yan , Xinhua, April 10, 2008</ref><ref>Chen, Lydia ''Shanghai Daily'', April 9, 2008</ref><ref>Zhang, Ning , ], April 10, 2008</ref> The official Chinese torch relay website described Jin as "heroic" and an "angel".<ref>, official torch relay website, April 9, 2008</ref><ref>, official torch relay website, April 10, 2008</ref> According to Geoffrey York of '']'', initially the state media of China censored reports on the torch protest and the incident involving Jin Jing, but it soon reported on the protest and portrayed China as the victim, thus appealing to patriotic sentiments.<ref>York, Geoffrey ''Globe & Mail'', April 12, 2008</ref><ref>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/olympics/article3732204.ece Chinese media provokes outrage over pro-Tibet Olympics protests] ''The Times'', April 12, 2008</ref> The Japan-based ''


In 2007, Jin Jing turned up for a selective trial, titled ''You Are the Torchbearer'', which was organized by ], and was chosen to be an Olympic torchbearer. On April 7, 2008, she was the third torchbearer carrying the ] during the relay in Paris, amidst protests and physical attempts to snatch the torch by demonstrators.<ref name=torchbearer>{{cite web|url=http://torchrelay.beijing2008.cn/en/journey/paris/news/n214297268.shtml |title=Torchbearer exhibits courage in Paris |publisher=The Official Website of the Torch Relay |date=2008-04-08 |accessdate=2008-04-15 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080411230744/http://torchrelay.beijing2008.cn/en/journey/paris/news/n214297268.shtml |archivedate=2008-04-11 }}</ref><ref name=LATimes>{{cite news|url=http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-china12apr12,1,4480516.story |title=Anger is growing in China over Olympics Protests |work=Los Angeles Times |date=2008-04-12 |accessdate=2008-04-14 |author=Ni Ching-Ching |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080420054715/http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-china12apr12%2C1%2C4480516.story |archivedate=2008-04-20 |url-status=dead }}</ref> According to '']'', "Protesters denouncing Chinese policy in Tibet threw themselves at Jin. Most were wrestled away by police but at least one reached her wheelchair and tried to wrench the torch away."<ref name=abcnews /> Jin was quoted by the state-run newspaper '']'' as saying that she "would die to protect the torch."<ref name=ChinaDaily>{{cite web|url=http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-04/14/content_6614357.htm|title=Golden girl lifts a nation|publisher=China Daily|author=Liu Wei|date=2008-04-14|accessdate=2008-04-16}}</ref> The ] president ] commented on the incident, saying, "What shocked me most is when someone tried to rob ''(sic?)'' the torch off a wheelchair athlete, a disabled athlete who was unable to defend the torch. This is unacceptable."<ref name=abcnews />
On her arrival back to ], after the Paris relay, Jin was interviewed by '']''. Of her experience of the relay, she claimed:

{{quote|They began lunging towards me, trying to grab the torch from my hands. I tried to hide the torch with my body and managed to keep it from them. I was focused on the three or four separatists attacking me. I'm not sure how many were behind me. I felt people trying to take the torch from me. That's when some of the escort runners , as well as the tourist guide assigned to me in Paris, came over to help me, drawing the attackers away. People ask me how I dealt with the danger. I don't think I thought too much about it. I trusted the escorts around me. They were the ones, along with my guide, that faced the danger.<ref name=JinInterview>{{cite web|url=http://torchrelay.beijing2008.cn/en/torchbearers/headlines/n214299940.shtml|title=Interview with torchbearer Jin Jing|publisher=Official Website of the Torch Relay|date=]|accessdate=2008-04-14}}</ref>}}
On her arrival back to ], after the Paris relay, Jin was interviewed by '']''. Of her experience of the relay, she said:
{{quote|They began lunging towards me, trying to grab the torch from my hands. I tried to hide the torch with my body and managed to keep it from them. I was focused on the three or four separatists attacking me. I'm not sure how many were behind me. I felt people trying to take the torch from me. That's when some of the escort runners , as well as the tourist guide assigned to me in Paris, came over to help me, drawing the attackers away. People ask me how I dealt with the danger. I don't think I thought too much about it. I trusted the escorts around me. They were the ones, along with my guide, that faced the danger.<ref name=JinInterview>{{cite web|url=http://torchrelay.beijing2008.cn/en/torchbearers/headlines/n214299940.shtml |title=Interview with torchbearer Jin Jing |publisher=The official Website of the Torch Relay |date=2008-04-10 |accessdate=2008-04-14 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080414055303/http://torchrelay.beijing2008.cn/en/torchbearers/headlines/n214299940.shtml |archivedate=2008-04-14 }}</ref>}}

Commenting on Tibet itself in interviews, she said she knew little of politics before encountering the demonstrations in Paris, and had never heard of the pro-Tibet independence movement. When asked by the UK's '']'' she also said, "My opinion before was that Tibet was an inseparable part of our country, now I hold this point more firmly than before."<ref name=Telegraph>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2008/04/12/uboly112.xml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080413053120/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2008/04/12/uboly112.xml|url-status=dead|archive-date=2008-04-13|title=Disabled girl becomes China's Olympic heroine|publisher=The Daily Telegraph|date=2008-04-12|accessdate=2008-04-16|author=Richard Spencer | location=London}}</ref>

Jin has been celebrated first on ]s and soon in Chinese media.<ref name=time>{{cite news|url=http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1729169,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080410165315/http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1729169,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 10, 2008|title=China's View of the Olympic Torch War|publisher=Time|date=2008-04-09|accessdate=2008-04-15|author=Ramzy Austin}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2008/200804/20080409/article_355239.htm|title=Touche: Assailant meets match|publisher=Shanghai Daily|date=2008-04-09|accessdate=2008-04-15|author=Lydia Chen}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cctv.com/english/20080410/104102.shtml|title=Handicapped girl wins respect for protecting sacred flame|publisher=CCTV|date=2008-04-14|accessdate=2008-04-15|author=Zhang Ning}}</ref><ref name=inShanghai>{{cite web|url=http://torchrelay.beijing2008.cn/en/torchbearers/headlines/n214305373.shtml |title=Jin Jing's back home in Shanghai! |publisher=The Official Website of the Torch Relay |date=2008-04-10 |accessdate=2008-04-15 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080414203411/http://torchrelay.beijing2008.cn/en/torchbearers/headlines/n214305373.shtml |archivedate=2008-04-14 }}</ref> She was treated to a hero's welcome upon her return to ] and China's news reports described her as the "Smiling Angel in Wheelchair" and the "Most Beautiful Torchbearer".<ref name=SmilingAngel>{{cite web|url=http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/04/10/875154.aspx |title=China's 'Smiling Angel in Wheelchair |publisher=MSNBC |date=2008-04-10 |accessdate=2008-04-10 |author=Ed Flanagan |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080411193523/http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/04/10/875154.aspx |archivedate=2008-04-11 }}</ref><ref name=heroic>{{cite web|url=http://torchrelay.beijing2008.cn/en/torchbearers/headlines/n214298691.shtml |title=Photos: Heroic torchbearer Jin Jing back in Beijing |publisher=The Official Website of the Torch Relay |date=2008-04-09 |accessdate=2008-04-15 |author=Ma Hailin |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080414232047/http://torchrelay.beijing2008.cn/en/torchbearers/headlines/n214298691.shtml |archivedate=2008-04-14 }}</ref><ref name=angel>{{cite web|url=http://torchrelay.beijing2008.cn/en/torchbearers/headlines/n214299534.shtml |title=Chinese angel comes home |publisher=The Official Website of the Torch Relay |date=2008-04-10 |accessdate=2008-04-15 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080414232057/http://torchrelay.beijing2008.cn/en/torchbearers/headlines/n214299534.shtml |archivedate=2008-04-14 }}</ref> According to Canada's '']'', initially the state ] censored all reports on the torch protests and the incident involving Jin Jing, but it soon reported on the protest and portrayed China as the victim, thus appealing to patriotic sentiments.<ref name=York>{{cite web|url=http://ago.mobile.globeandmail.com/generated/archive/RTGAM/html/20080411/wchina0412.html |title=China spins protests abroad to buttress support at home |publisher=The Globe and Mail |date=2008-04-12 |accessdate=2008-04-15 |author=Geoffrey York |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080414162007/http://ago.mobile.globeandmail.com/generated/archive/RTGAM/html/20080411/wchina0412.html |archivedate=2008-04-14 }}</ref> The UK's '']'' wrote that Chinese media coverage of the Paris leg of the relay was "reminiscent of the ] when propaganda organs were able to whip up the public into a frenzy of rage over an issue of their choice."<ref name=TheTimes>{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/olympics/article3732204.ece|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080726212407/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/olympics/article3732204.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 26, 2008|title=Chinese media provokes outrage over pro-Tibet Olympics protests|work=The Times|date=2008-04-12|accessdate=2008-04-15|author=Jane Macartney | location=London}}</ref> '']'' wrote that Jin is "now known as a defender of China's dignity" and joins "a list of heroes promoted by the communist government's propaganda authorities",<ref name=associatedpress /> while '']'' called her a "new heroine in China" by whom Beijing "is trying to claw back one or two propaganda points from the torch's recent rocky progress."<ref>
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</ref> The French magazine '']'' devoted a full page to her in its 26 April edition, and commented that the Chinese ] were "strangely" absent when Jin carried the torch, leaving it up to the French police alone to guard Jin and her companions. But according to the interview Jin gave to ''Sohu'' on April 9, she was waiting to accept the flame as the third torchbearer, and security was "relatively light" around her, when the protestors "began lunging" at her.<ref name=JinInterview /> ''Marianne'' wrote that Jin's story had become a "legend skillfully propagated" by the Chinese media: "Images of Jin Jing holding the torch against her heart, her eyes closed in her lovely face, are being shown over and over on ] and are inflaming the Chinese Internet," making Jin famous for "hundreds of millions of Chinese viewers and netizens."<ref name="marianne" /> The French newspaper '']'' published an analysis of what it referred to as "the Jin Jing phenomenon": "The media have been drumming into people's heads the story of this young woman who became, in the space of an incident in Paris, the symbol of Chinese pride in the face of Western hostility. The actions of the media bore their fruit, and the 'angel in a wheelchair' has generated unprecedented enthusiasm in China and among Chinese communities all over the world."<ref>, Samuel Laurent, ''Le Figaro'', April 21, 2008</ref>

The event involving Jin Jing in Paris sparked outrage around China, and Chinese citizens started to urge on the internet for a boycott of French goods and businesses, and touted to "hunt down" the protester who accosted Jin and "teach him a lesson."<ref name=LATimes /><ref name=BBCBoycott>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7347918.stm|title=Carrefour faces China boycott bid|work=BBC News|date=2008-04-15|accessdate=2008-04-15}}</ref><ref name=WashTimesBoycott>{{cite web|url=http://washingtontimes.com/article/20080415/FOREIGN/871683123/1003|title=Chinese citizens organize boycott of French goods|publisher=The Washington Times|date=2008-04-15|accessdate=2008-04-15|author=Chris O'Brien}}</ref><ref name=CanadaBoycott>{{cite web|url=http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=6805a872-4db0-4f2b-a375-793b7bf97448&k=61122 |title=Chinese web awash with calls for boycott of French goods |publisher=Canada.com |date=2008-04-15 |accessdate=2008-04-15 |author=Aileen McCabe |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080416105901/http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=6805a872-4db0-4f2b-a375-793b7bf97448&k=61122 |archivedate=2008-04-16 }}</ref> On April 21, two weeks after the incident, Jin received a personal letter from French president ], delivered by Senate President ]. In the letter Sarkozy referred to the attack as "intolerable", and said he "condemns it with the utmost force."<ref>{{cite web|url=|title=Sarkozy apologies to disabled China athlete attacked in torch relay|publisher=Associated Press|date=2008-04-21}}</ref><ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080902002919/http://www.liberation.fr/actualite/monde/322388.FR.php |date=2008-09-02 }}, ''Libération'', April 28, 2008</ref><ref>, ''L'Express'', April 21, 2008</ref><ref>, ''Le Monde'', April 21, 2008</ref> Xinhua reported that Jin was "very glad to be invited by President Sarkozy to France" and that she "hope to contribute her own efforts to cementing the ]".<ref name="news.xinhuanet.com">, Xinhua, April 21, 2008</ref> However, Jin also expressed her disappointment to the press later that Sarkozy "expressed regret, shock and condemnation but no apology."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3283036,00.html|title=Sarkozy writes to Chinese torch-bearer|publisher=www.dw-world.de|date=2008-04-22|accessdate=2008-04-22}}</ref>

On September 18, 2008, Jin was received by President Sarkozy at the ]. Sarkozy publicly stated that he was "very happy to greet ", and praised her "exemplary courage".<ref>, ''Le Monde'', September 18, 2008</ref> ], describing Jin as a "nationalist icon", reported that the incident in Paris had "caused a diplomatic rift between China and France that Sarkozy has been at pains to mend ever since", and that his hosting of Jin at the Elysée palace was a means of "heal rift".<ref>, Reuters, September 18, 2008</ref>

==Boycott of Carrefour==
In April 2008, amidst calls in China to boycott French retailer ] to show anger towards France and the experience Jin Jing had in Paris, Jin said she does not want people to boycott ] since most of its employees are Chinese and they will be first affected.<ref>{{cite web
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Chinese fencer For the Chinese field hockey player, see Jin Jing (field hockey). In this Chinese name, the family name is Jin.
Jin Jing
Personal information
Born1981
Hefei, Anhui, China
Jin Jing
Chinese金晶
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinJīn Jīng
Wade–GilesChin Ching
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Jin Jing (Chinese: 金晶; pinyin: Jīn Jīng; born 1981 in Hefei, Anhui, China) is a Chinese female Paralympic fencer. She was a torchbearer carrying the Olympic torch amid political protests during the 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay in Paris, France. According to ABC News, she fended off protestors who "threw themselves" at her; most were wrestled away by French police but at least one reached her wheelchair and tried to wrench the torch away. Jin has gained national fame in China because of the incident, but was attacked on Chinese internet bulletin boards for her stance in the following call to boycott French retailer Carrefour that resulted from public anger toward France. In contrast, Western media concentrated on how the incident involving Jin Jing ignited Chinese nationalism and claimed that the incident was exploited for propaganda purposes by the state media.

Family and personal life

Jin Jing's parents are wage earners. Her father, Jin Jiansheng (金建生), is a sent-down youth who moved from Shanghai to Anhui during the Cultural Revolution, where he met and married Liu Huayao (刘华瑶). Jin was born in 1981, in Hefei, Anhui, She has a younger sister, Jin Renyu (金任钰).

Jin had part of her right leg amputated in 1989 when she was in elementary school after a malignant tumor was found on her ankle and later underwent a year of chemotherapy. She moved to Shanghai with her family in 1995 and studied information technology in a technical secondary school. After graduation, she worked as a telephone operator in a hotel in Shanghai. Jin got married in Shanghai in September 2013.

Career

On July 13, 2001, the day when Beijing was elected the host city for 2008 Summer Olympics, Jin Jing became a member of the Shanghai Wheelchair Fencing Team. Later on she joined the Chinese National Wheelchair Fencing Team.

Her career as a fencer is summarized in the following table:

Year Tournament Venue Event Result Source
2002 Wheelchair Fencing World Cup Warsaw, Poland Women's Wheelchair Fencing Épée 8 th
2002 FESPIC Games Busan, South Korea Women's Wheelchair Fencing Épée silver
Women's Wheelchair Fencing Foil (Team) bronze
2003 6th National Paralympic Games of the P.R. China Nanjing, China Women's Wheelchair Fencing Épée bronze
Women's Wheelchair Fencing Foil (Team) silver
2003 World Wheelchair Games Christchurch, New Zealand Women's Wheelchair Fencing Épée bronze
2005 National Table Tennis and Fencing Games Nanjing, China Women's Wheelchair Fencing Foil bronze
2005 Wheelchair Fencing World Cup Hong Kong Women's Wheelchair Fencing Épée 5 th
Women's Wheelchair Fencing Foil 5 th

On May 6, 2008, Jin Jing was named as the ambassador of a Paralympic cheering group to help publicize Paralympic sports worldwide in the runup to the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing.

On September 6, she brought the Paralympic torch into the Bird's Nest stadium during the Opening Ceremony of the Paralympic Games. On this occasion, she "made headlines in the Chinese media", according to the Agence France-Presse.

2008 Summer Olympics torch relay

Main article: 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay
An attempt to wrestle the torch from Jin Jing in Paris

In 2007, Jin Jing turned up for a selective trial, titled You Are the Torchbearer, which was organized by China Central Television, and was chosen to be an Olympic torchbearer. On April 7, 2008, she was the third torchbearer carrying the Olympic Flame during the relay in Paris, amidst protests and physical attempts to snatch the torch by demonstrators. According to ABC News, "Protesters denouncing Chinese policy in Tibet threw themselves at Jin. Most were wrestled away by police but at least one reached her wheelchair and tried to wrench the torch away." Jin was quoted by the state-run newspaper China Daily as saying that she "would die to protect the torch." The International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge commented on the incident, saying, "What shocked me most is when someone tried to rob (sic?) the torch off a wheelchair athlete, a disabled athlete who was unable to defend the torch. This is unacceptable."

On her arrival back to Beijing, after the Paris relay, Jin was interviewed by Sohu. Of her experience of the relay, she said:

They began lunging towards me, trying to grab the torch from my hands. I tried to hide the torch with my body and managed to keep it from them. I was focused on the three or four separatists attacking me. I'm not sure how many were behind me. I felt people trying to take the torch from me. That's when some of the escort runners , as well as the tourist guide assigned to me in Paris, came over to help me, drawing the attackers away. People ask me how I dealt with the danger. I don't think I thought too much about it. I trusted the escorts around me. They were the ones, along with my guide, that faced the danger.

Commenting on Tibet itself in interviews, she said she knew little of politics before encountering the demonstrations in Paris, and had never heard of the pro-Tibet independence movement. When asked by the UK's The Daily Telegraph she also said, "My opinion before was that Tibet was an inseparable part of our country, now I hold this point more firmly than before."

Jin has been celebrated first on internet bulletin boards and soon in Chinese media. She was treated to a hero's welcome upon her return to Beijing and China's news reports described her as the "Smiling Angel in Wheelchair" and the "Most Beautiful Torchbearer". According to Canada's The Globe and Mail, initially the state media of China censored all reports on the torch protests and the incident involving Jin Jing, but it soon reported on the protest and portrayed China as the victim, thus appealing to patriotic sentiments. The UK's The Times wrote that Chinese media coverage of the Paris leg of the relay was "reminiscent of the Cultural Revolution when propaganda organs were able to whip up the public into a frenzy of rage over an issue of their choice." The Associated Press wrote that Jin is "now known as a defender of China's dignity" and joins "a list of heroes promoted by the communist government's propaganda authorities", while The Sydney Morning Herald called her a "new heroine in China" by whom Beijing "is trying to claw back one or two propaganda points from the torch's recent rocky progress." The French magazine Marianne devoted a full page to her in its 26 April edition, and commented that the Chinese flame attendants were "strangely" absent when Jin carried the torch, leaving it up to the French police alone to guard Jin and her companions. But according to the interview Jin gave to Sohu on April 9, she was waiting to accept the flame as the third torchbearer, and security was "relatively light" around her, when the protestors "began lunging" at her. Marianne wrote that Jin's story had become a "legend skillfully propagated" by the Chinese media: "Images of Jin Jing holding the torch against her heart, her eyes closed in her lovely face, are being shown over and over on CCTV and are inflaming the Chinese Internet," making Jin famous for "hundreds of millions of Chinese viewers and netizens." The French newspaper Le Figaro published an analysis of what it referred to as "the Jin Jing phenomenon": "The media have been drumming into people's heads the story of this young woman who became, in the space of an incident in Paris, the symbol of Chinese pride in the face of Western hostility. The actions of the media bore their fruit, and the 'angel in a wheelchair' has generated unprecedented enthusiasm in China and among Chinese communities all over the world."

The event involving Jin Jing in Paris sparked outrage around China, and Chinese citizens started to urge on the internet for a boycott of French goods and businesses, and touted to "hunt down" the protester who accosted Jin and "teach him a lesson." On April 21, two weeks after the incident, Jin received a personal letter from French president Nicolas Sarkozy, delivered by Senate President Christian Poncelet. In the letter Sarkozy referred to the attack as "intolerable", and said he "condemns it with the utmost force." Xinhua reported that Jin was "very glad to be invited by President Sarkozy to France" and that she "hope to contribute her own efforts to cementing the Sino-France friendship". However, Jin also expressed her disappointment to the press later that Sarkozy "expressed regret, shock and condemnation but no apology."

On September 18, 2008, Jin was received by President Sarkozy at the Palais de l'Elysée. Sarkozy publicly stated that he was "very happy to greet ", and praised her "exemplary courage". Reuters, describing Jin as a "nationalist icon", reported that the incident in Paris had "caused a diplomatic rift between China and France that Sarkozy has been at pains to mend ever since", and that his hosting of Jin at the Elysée palace was a means of "heal rift".

Boycott of Carrefour

In April 2008, amidst calls in China to boycott French retailer Carrefour to show anger towards France and the experience Jin Jing had in Paris, Jin said she does not want people to boycott Carrefour since most of its employees are Chinese and they will be first affected. She also spoke in support of "Chinese people's friendship with the French", wished the best for French athletes at the Beijing Olympics, and added: "We Chinese people will certainly welcome French people and athletes to China with a tolerant, friendly and passionate attitude." She had received strong personal attacks on Chinese bulletin boards, though her popularity is still considered very high. So far, she is still called "The Angel in Wheelchair".

See also

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