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Reporting Hong Kong: Foreign Media and the Handover (ConsumAsian Series)
Reporting Hong Kong Foreign Media and the Handover - ConsumAsian Series Author:Alan Knight, Yoshiko Nakano How does international media report an Asian milestone? In the summer of 1997, Hong Kong's handover to China attracted thousands of foreign correspondents, hoping for the media event of the decade. How does international media work? How did they report the strictly stage-managed events? This book considers how different political and cultural... more » assumptions framed the reporting of the end of empire. "Reporting Hong Kong" takes snapshots of the handover day through the eyes of journalists from Britain, China, Japan, the United States, Australia, Vietnam, Italy, and Hong Kong. It lays out a collage of interviews, press releases, and the texts revealing the ways in which news is constructed. It tracks the media handling by the Hong Kong government and by a democratic leader Martin Lee. It crosses the border into mainland China, to investigate the workings of the Guangzhou Daily as its journalists skirt propaganda and censorship to report the news. It looks at British nostalgia for their last Asian colony, as reflected in television reports. It shows how a Japanese radio network covered visual spectacle with local voices within the constraints of language differences and limited access. "Reporting Hong Kong" documents how journalistic prisms shape and color "reality" in socialist as well as in free societies.« less