Narratives of the Hong Kong Sovereignty Transfer : The Pragmatics of Language and Ideology in the Taiwanese and Chinese English-Language Press

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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.