INTRODUCTION: a brief introduction captures the reader’s attention by showing the relevance of studying earlier discourses on the future of Hong Kong (both in Chinese and Taiwanese media accounts) in view of the latest political developments in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Part 1, Theory, Methodology and contextualisation of the narratives

Chapter 2 Wider socio-political context comprises two sections: (1) “From Hong Kong to SAR” ; (2) “From ROC to Taiwan”.
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Chapter 3 (“Situational context of the media narratives: media ecology in Taiwan and China”)
bby which started negotiations on their own terms with the Chinese leadership.
The second subsection on the Chinese Official Discourse on the Sovereignty Transfer introduces the reader to the narratives’ discursive struggle between "Asian values" and "Western liberal philosophies represented as universal values", competing for hegemonic power in meaning construction. It especially looks into the official Chinese position, articulated in official speeches, on the handover for comparative purposes with the various viewpoints in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Chapter 4 Discourses on the Handover

Chapter 5 Constructed media reality: one event, multiple interpretations

Part2: Empirical text analysis

This part forms the analytical part of the book and provides the main findings of the empirical analysis of all Hong Kong-related articles within the corpus. It is divided into two chapters.

Chapter 6 Methodological approach outlines

Chapter 7 Findings: scanning the spectrum of narratives

Epilogue
A general conclusion synthesizes the main observations and reflects on the method of a comparative language-pragmatic analysis to tease out the power of the journalistic pen.