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Lutgard Lams is Professor of Media Discourse Analysis and Intercultural Communication at KU Leuven Campus Brussels (Belgium), where she heads the Brussels Center for Journalism Studies and the Chinese Discourse Studies workgroup. Using insights from Critical Discourse Analysis and Language Pragmatics, she explores linguistic aspects of meaning generation in spoken and written journalistic discourse. She has published extensively on media discourses in and about the Chinese region, strategic narratives in political communication, and media framing.

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This comparative analysis of Chinese and Taiwanese English-language press narratives about Hong Kong's handover on 1 July 1997, buttressed by a historical, sociological and political contextualization of the media accounts, shows the power of the pen, generating varying media realities about the same Hong Kong story.

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INTRODUCTION: Discourse Power and Struggle over Meanings

PART I: Theory and Contextualization of the Narratives

Ch1: Theoretical Foundations

Ch 2: Historical Contextualization of the Narratives

Ch 3: Media Ecologies in Taiwan and China in the 1990s

Ch 4: Discourses on Hong Kong and the Handover

Ch 5: The Constructed Media Reality

PART II: Empirical Analysis: Decoding the Kaleidoscope of Meanings

Ch 6: Research Design

Ch 7: Findings: Scanning the Spectrum of Narratives

Ch 8: Building a Theoretical Framework for Studying Chinese Discourses on Identity, Sovereignty, and Nation-Building

EPILOGUE: Understanding the Present through the Prism of the Past

APPENDIX: Chronology of Events Prior to the Hong Kong Sovereignty **Transfer (1955-1997)

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