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One Event, Three Stories: Media Narratives of the Handover of Hong Kong in Cultural China

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International Communication Gazette, 61 (2): 99 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/0016549299061002001

Abstract

This article analyzes how the media from the People's Republic of China, Taiwan and Hong Kong constructed their respective narratives about the handover of Hong Kong - based on their institutional configurations, the relevance of the story to their home constituencies, their conventions of news-making and the cultural repertoire on which they drew to make the event intelligible. Domesticating a global media event reflects and reproduces each society as a discursive community; in a defining moment like this, the media bind each society through their shared ways of interpretations and expression.

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