This collection of articles treats the relationship between the press and politics in Hong Kong from 1967 to 1997. Making use of critical event analysis, content analysis, as well as survey and interview methods, these articles explicate the role of the press in various political cases. The case studies include the 1967 Riot, the Golden Jubilee School Case, the Illegal Immigrant Incident, the initial Sino-British Negotiations, the first Legislative Council Election, the Daya Bay Incident, the political reform in the mid-1980s, the Tiananmen Square Crackdown, Chris Patten's political reform package in the early 1990s, and the arrest of Xi Yang. The legitimation of the Legislative Council by the press is also documented, and surveys are done to chart the changing relations between the political system and the media system, as well as the cultural identities of the Hong Kong people on the eve of the 1997 handover.
The loci of explanation span the single-factor approach of political ideology to the multi-factor and dynamic model in which power distribution, market forces, media professionalism and organizational constraints are included. The theoretical concerns are not limited to the newsmaking process, but also touch upon public-opinion politics and cultural identification. The introduction chapter provides an overview of the history of the press in Hong Kong and the evolution of the press structure in recent years.
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Research on Press and Politics in Hong Kong: An Overview ...... Clement Y. K. SO and Joseph Man CHAN
2. The Role of Newspapers in the 1967 Riot: A Case Study of the Partisanship of the Hong Kong Press ...... Alice Y. L. LEE
3. Journalistic “Paradigms” of Civil Protests: A Case Study in Hong Kong ...... Joseph Man CHAN and Chin-Chuan LEE
4. Dialectic of Journalistic Orientation: A Study of the Treatment of Government News by the Hong Kong Press ...... Clement Y. K. SO
5. Legitimating the Power Establishment: How the Media Report the Legislative Council ...... Francis C. W. YIP
6. Sino-British Talks on 1997: A Case Study of Political Communication ...... Fanny L. K. WONG
7. The Role of the News in a Changing Power Structure: A Study of the Press Coverage of Political Reform in Hong Kong ...... TSANG Wat-sau
8. Mass Media and Politics in Hong Kong ...... KUAN Hsin-chi and LAU Siu-kai
9. Towards a Photographic Theory of Newsmaking: The Dynamic Mechanism of the “Four Lenses” ...... Alice Y. L. LEE
10. The Daya Bay Opinion War: Analysis of a Multi-level Conflict ...... MA Ngok
11. Framing a Social Crisis: The Case of the Tiananmen Square Crackdown ...... FUNG Tak-hung
12. Changes in Hong Kong Media's Political Stance and News Paradigm: Case Study of the Political Reform Package ...... LEE Wai-fong
13. Democratization, Reunification and Press Freedom in Hong Kong: A Critical Event Analysis of the Xi Yang Case ...... Joseph Man CHAN and Yiu-ming TO
14. Re-sinicization, Nationalism and the Hong Kong Identity ...... Eric K. W. MA and Anthony Y. H. FUNG
Appendix: List of CUHK Theses and Reports on Hong Kong Political Communication
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