Jennifer Eagleton

Discursive Change in Hong Kong

Sociopolitical Dynamics, Metaphor, and One Country, Two Systems

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Discursive Change in Hong Kong is a comprehensive interdisciplinary study of socio-political and discursive change in Hong Kong since 1997. It provides a stimulating, politically well informed, and comprehensive "insider" account of media and official discourse on democracy and political change as part of "One Country, Two Systems."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 688g
• ISBN-13: 9781793630841
• ISBN-10: 1793630844
• Artikelnr.: 63153175

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Eagleton is a teacher of communications at the University of Hong Kong.

Inhaltsangabe

A Word on Primary and Secondary Sources Used in this Book
Chapter 1: A Transition: Impact of the Past on the Discourse of Hong Kong's
Political Future
Chapter 2: Hong Kong's "Guiding Light": The Basic Law as Discursive Frame
Chapter 3: Participants in the Discourse: The Political Discursive Divide
Chapter 4: Metaphor as Narrative: Mapping the First Decade of Political
Change
Chapter 5: Hijacking an Ideology: The Cultural Revolution, Metaphor, and
Hong Kong's Democratization
Chapter 6: Contested Concepts: Civil Disobedience and the Rule of Law
before, during, and after the Umbrella Movement
Chapter 7: The Mainlandization of Hong Kong Political Discourse
Chapter 8: "Being Water": A Holistic Study of the 2019 Protests
Chapter 9: Looking towards a Contested Future
Chapter 10: Discursive Change in Hong Kong: Socio-political Dynamics and
the One Country, Two Systems
Appendix A: A Hong Kong Timeline
References
About the Author