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Record W7118173894 · doi:10.52537/humanimalia.22582

Go Panda Go!

2025· article· en· W7118173894 on OpenAlex

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueHumanimalia · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicJapanese History and Culture
Canadian institutionsYork University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEntertainmentDiplomacyGrassrootsExhibitionPoliticsInternational relationsAnime

Abstract

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This article examines the invention and exhibitions of the panda circus to explore the political, economic, and cultural influence of the giant panda on China–Japan diplomacy and the transnational cultural economy. Using oral history interviews and archival materials, the authors explain how, in 1981, a giant panda named Wei Wei became China’s first panda entertainer in Japan, embarking on a cross-country tour supported by friendship-city agreements and grassroots friendship movements. By discussing Wei Wei’s unexpected and sometimes ferocious responses to human demands, as well as Japanese media reporting on his “rebellion”, the authors show how Wei Wei’s behaviour raised Japanese public awareness of the giant panda’s individuality and agency. The circus tour not only facilitated municipal-level China–Japan relations but also generated a new mode of anthropomorphizing the giant panda—one that challenged consumerist representations and helped Japanese audiences recognize the giant panda’s suffering. The authors argue that Wei Wei’s “rebellion” disrupted human political expectations and economic transactions in this episode of China–Japan diplomacy, contributing to a re-envisioning of bilateral relations beyond a strictly political-economic framework. Overall, the article offers an interdisciplinary, trans-Asia approach that explores the intersections of animal agency, emotional labour, international relations, media, and performance.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.772
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.030
GPT teacher head0.314
Teacher spread0.284 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it