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>The Hong Kong press in political transition: Framing the news of the Hong Kong newspapers on Taiwan's presidential elections in 1996 and 2000 (China).
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The Hong Kong press in political transition: Framing the news of the Hong Kong newspapers on Taiwan's presidential elections in 1996 and 2000 (China).
The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate Hong Kong's press freedom when the former British colony returned to China in 1997. From the ideological aspect, the study explores the differences between Hong Kong and China regarding the conception of a free press, with particular attention to their real consequences. On the operational level, by using Taiwan's presidential elections in 1996 and 2000 which stride over Hong Kong's political transition as examples, the Hong Kong newspapers on framing the two events are examined in order to illustrate the changes of Hong Kong's press over these years.; The results of the traditional content analysis and the semantic network analysis (Catpac) suggest that the Hong Kong newspapers generally switched their attitudes to be more conservative and self-censored after it was back to China's control. Examinations of the changes of the Hong Kong newspapers' expressed attitudes on covering Taiwan's two presidential elections between 1996 and 2000 have four significant findings.; First, the Hong Kong newspapers were cautious not to present any sensitive or controversial terms, concepts, or pictures that would either upset and offend the Beijing authority or support Taiwan's status. Second, the Hong Kong newspapers selected to promote China's policies on solving the Taiwan-China problems such as the ‘one China’ principle or the ‘one country, two systems’ policy by presenting these terms more frequently. Third, the newspapers directly or indirectly diminished or distorted the images of Taiwan's democratic performance and the presidential election. Fourth, the Hong Kong newspapers cited more unfriendly sources or used unfavorable tones toward Taiwan after China's took over.; Although this dissertation generally supports the conclusion that Hong Kong's press freedom became more conservative and tightened over these years, the fact that the Chinese government is trying to adopt an instrumental view of the Hong Kong media should not be neglected. That is, the press freedom in Hong Kong would not be damaged too much as long as China regards it as an instrument to woo Taiwan leaders to accept the ‘one country, two systems’ theory, and to demonstrate to the world that the Hong Kong model is successful. On the other hand, from the optimistic point of view, Hong Kong's transfer to China may offer this city's media industries a better opportunity to exploit the mainland market. Thus, Hong Kong's impact on China may ultimately prove to be far more remarkable than the mainland's influence on Hong Kong.
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