Media And Politics In Post Handover Hong Kong

Author : Joseph M. Chan,Francis L.F. Lee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317968788

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Media and Politics in Post-Handover Hong Kong by Joseph M. Chan,Francis L.F. Lee Pdf

The world was watching Hong Kong as its sovereignty was returned to China in 1997. Many predicted that it was the doomsday of press freedom in the city. Now, a decade after the handover, this book provides an up-to-date review of the dynamic relationship between media and political power in the post-handover years. It covers seven key issues including the mapping of the changing boundaries of press freedom, the impact of media ownership change on editorial stance, the development of national and hybrid identities, the tension between self-censorship and media professionalism, the rising importance of government public relations, the power and limits of hegemonic discourse, and the countervailing force posed by collective actions and public opinion. These studies combine to reveal how the media are transformed as power structure is reconfigured and how the media may act upon politics in exerting their roles as the people’s voice. The book will serve as a reference for anyone who is interested in the evolution of political communication in a transitional society.

Author : Chi Kit Chan,Gary Tang,Francis L. F. Lee
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811918209

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Hong Kong Media by Chi Kit Chan,Gary Tang,Francis L. F. Lee Pdf

This book explores the challenges to news professionalism and media autonomy stemming from the state, market pressure, the digitalization of communication, and a polarized civil society in Hong Kong. China is tightening its control over post-handover Hong Kong, which includes press freedom. Harsh market competition, coupled with shifting readership from mainstream media to digital platforms, is squeezing the business viability of media organizations. The polarization of civil society in post-handover Hong Kong had degraded consensual values upon which news professionalism relies. Journalists have had to reorient news professionalism and media power in the midst of state-society tension, market pressure, and the shifting communication mode driven by digitalization. These are the key questions for Hong Kong media. This dynamic intervention will be of interest to journalists, scholars of civil society, and scholars of Asian politics.

Author : Francis L. F. Lee,Joseph M. Chan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136860423

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Media, Social Mobilisation and Mass Protests in Post-colonial Hong Kong by Francis L. F. Lee,Joseph M. Chan Pdf

Since 2003, Hong Kong has witnessed a series of large-scale protests which have constituted the core of a reinvigorated pro-democracy movement. What drove tens of thousands of citizens to the street on a yearly basis to protest? What were the social and organizational bases of the protest movement? How did media and public discourses affect the protests’ formation and mobilization? How did the protesters understand their own actions and the political environment? This book tackles such questions by using a wide range of methods, including population and protest onsite surveys, media content analysis, and in-depth interviews with activists, politicians, and protest participants. It provides an account of the "self-mobilization processes" behind the historic July 1, 2003 protest, and how the protest kick-started new political dynamics and discursive contestations in the public arena which not only turned a single protest into a series of collective actions constituting a movement, but also continually shaped the movement’s characteristics and influence. The book is highly pertinent to readers interested in political development in Hong Kong, and as a case study on "the power of critical events," the book also has broad implications on the study of both media politics and social movements in general.

Author : Carol P. Lai
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134145072

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Media in Hong Kong by Carol P. Lai Pdf

This book examines the Hong Kong media over a forty year period, focusing in particular on how its newspapers and TV stations have struggled for press freedom under the colonial British administration, as well as Chinese rule. Making full use of newly declassified material, extensive interviews and specific case-studies, it provides an illuminating analysis of the dynamics of political power and its relationship with media censorship. Overall, this book is an impressive discussion of the evolving face of the Hong Kong media, and is an important contribution to theoretical debates on the relationship between political power, economics, identity and journalism.

Author : Meng U Ieong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000082135

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Macau 20 Years after the Handover by Meng U Ieong Pdf

This book outlines the major social and political changes in the city of Macau during its first 20 years under the "One Country, Two Systems" arrangement with Mainland China. Despite the long-standing image of Macau as Asia’s Las Vegas, it is a city that has changed a great deal since its return to China. Equally, despite this return, it retains a unique social, economic and political character, distinct both from the Mainland of China and from its larger neighbour, Hong Kong. The chapters in this book examine the detail of this uniqueness from a range of perspectives, including the gambling industry, police-society relations, media usage patterns and protest movements. Analysing the state of affairs 20 years after the city’s return to China, they also attempt to anticipate its future trajectory. This is a valuable guide for scholars of Asian, and particularly Chinese, urban politics that will be of interest to academics and students looking to better understand the particularities of Macau.

Author : Chin-Chuan Lee,Joseph Man Chan,Zhongdang Pan,Clement Y K So
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0791488160

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Global Media Spectacle by Chin-Chuan Lee,Joseph Man Chan,Zhongdang Pan,Clement Y K So Pdf

Focusing on the global media coverage of Hong Kong's transfer from Britain to China, Global Media Spectacle explores how the world media plan, operate, compete, and produce a historical record during significant global events. The authors interviewed seventy-six print and television reporters from the United States, Britain, the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Australia, Canada, and Japan to delve into the revealing world of writing first drafts of history from reporters' vantage points. Punctuated with witty and incisive examples, the book provides a useful description of contestation and alliance, themes and variations, and convergence and divergence between and within various blocs of nations.

Author : Francis Lap Fung Lee,Joseph Man Chan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Hong Kong (China)
ISBN : 0415596068

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Media, Social Mobilization and Mass Protests in Post-colonial Hong Kong by Francis Lap Fung Lee,Joseph Man Chan Pdf

This book discusses why the Hong Kong protest movement emerged at a specific time, how it developed from a single protest into a series collective actions, and how effective it has been in changing government policy. It argues that the news media has been crucial - more so than political parties or the movement's organisers - in determining how the protests have developed, and it examines the possible connections between the 1 July protests in Hong Kong and the pro-democracy protests in China.

Author : Ming K. CHAN
Publisher : City University of HK Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789629371685

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China's Hong Kong Transformed by Ming K. CHAN Pdf

The impressive array of penetrating analysis and provocative interpretations afforded by this volume’s 14 chapters sharpen appreciation of the ongoing transformations of China’s Hong Kong since 1997 and the possibilities embedded in its journey toward an integrative merger-convergence with the Mainland by 2047. A unique strength of this volume lies with the wide ranging views and divergent assessments offered by the chapter authors of different nationalities, varied experience, diverse academic/professional disciplines, and of competing ideo-political persuasions. Ten of them are leading academics (economist, historian, legalist, media scholar, political scientist, sociologist) well-published on Hong Kong topics while seven are seasoned practitioners on the cutting edge of Hong Kong’s development (as HKSAR official, legislator, Basic Law Committee member, business leader, think-tank expert, journalist, and US diplomat). Published by City University of Hong Kong Press. 香港城市大學出版社出版。

Author : Charles Chi-wai Cheung
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317266587

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Media Power in Hong Kong by Charles Chi-wai Cheung Pdf

Studies of Hong Kong media primarily examine whether China will crush Hong Kong’s media freedom. This book however traces the root problem of Hong Kong media back to the colonial era, demonstrating that before the resumption of Chinese sovereignty there already existed a uniquely Hong Kong brand of hyper-marketized and oligopolistic media system. The system, encouraged by the British colonial government, was subsequently aggravated by the Chinese government. This peculiar system is highly susceptible to state intervention and structurally disadvantaged dissent and marginal groups before and after 1997. The book stresses that this hyper-marketized media system has been constantly challenged. Through a historical study of media stigmatization of youth, this book proposes that over the years various counter forces have penetrated the structurally lopsided Hong Kong media: independent, public, popular and news media all make occasional subversive alliances to disrupt the mainstream, and news media, with a strong liberal professionalism, provide the most subversive space for challenging cultural hegemony. The book offers an alternative and fascinating account of the dynamics between hegemonic closure and day-to-day resistance in Hong Kong media in both the colonial and post-colonial eras, arguing that the Hong Kong case generates important insights for understanding ideological struggles in capitalist media.

Author : Joseph Man Chan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Demonstrations
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122929792

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Mobilization and Protest Participation in Post-handover Hong Kong by Joseph Man Chan Pdf

Author : Francis L.F. Lee,Joseph M. Chan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190856793

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Media and Protest Logics in the Digital Era by Francis L.F. Lee,Joseph M. Chan Pdf

Digital and social media are increasingly integrated into the dynamics of protest movements around the world. They strengthen the mobilization power of movements, extend movement networks, facilitate new modes of protest participation, and give rise to new protest formations. Meanwhile, conventional media remains an important arena where protesters and their targets contest for public support. This book examines the role of the media -- understood as an integrated system comprised of both conventional media institutions and digital media platforms -- in the formation and dynamics of the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong. For 79 days in 2014, Hong Kong became the focus of international attention due to a public demonstration for genuine democracy that would become known as the Umbrella Movement. During this time, twenty percent of the local population would join the demonstration, the most large-scale and sustained act of civil disobedience in Hong Kong's history -- and the largest public protest campaign in China since the 1989 student movement in Beijing. On the surface, this movement was not unlike other large-scale protest movements that have occurred around the world in recent years. However, it was distinct in how bottom-up processes evolved into a centrally organized, programmatic movement with concrete policy demands. In this book, Francis L. F. Lee and Joseph M. Chan connect the case of the Umbrella Movement to recent theorizations of new social movement formations. Here, Lee and Chan analyze how traditional mass media institutions and digital media combined with on-the-ground networks in such a way as to propel citizen participation and the evolution of the movement as a whole. As such, they argue that the Umbrella Movement is important in the way it sheds light on the rise of digital-media-enabled social movements, the relationship between digital media platforms and legacy media institutions, the power and limitations of such occupation protests and new "action logics," and the continual significance of old protest logics of resource mobilization and collective action frames. Through a combination of protester surveys, population surveys, analyses of news contents and social media activities, this book reconstructs a rich and nuanced account of the Umbrella Movement, providing insight into numerous issues about the media-movement nexus in the digital era.

Author : Tai-lok Lui,Stephen W.K. Chiu,Ray Yep
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317337362

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Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Hong Kong by Tai-lok Lui,Stephen W.K. Chiu,Ray Yep Pdf

When Britain and China negotiated the future of Hong Kong in the early 1980s, their primary concern was about maintaining the status quo. The rise of China in the last thirty years, however, has reshaped the Beijing-Hong Kong dynamic as new tensions and divisions have emerged. Thus, post-1997 Hong Kong is a case about a global city’s democratic transition within an authoritarian state. The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Hong Kong introduces readers to these key social, economic, and political developments. Bringing together the work of leading researchers in the field, it focuses on the process of transition from a British colony to a Special Administrative Region under China’s sovereign rule. Organized thematically, the sections covered include: ‘One Country, Two Systems’ in practice Governance in post-colonial Hong Kong Social mobilization The changing social fabric of Hong Kong society Socio-economic development and regional integration The future of Hong Kong. This book provides a thorough introduction to Hong Kong today. As such, it will be invaluable to students and scholars of Hong Kong’s politics, culture and society. It will also be of interest to those studying Chinese political development and the impact of China’s rise more generally.

Author : Ho-fung Hung
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-19
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 9781108840330

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City on the Edge by Ho-fung Hung Pdf

A timely study of Hong Kong's politics and society since the 1997 handover that explores the city's long history of resistance.

Author : Ching Kwan Lee,Ming Sing
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501740930

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Take Back Our Future by Ching Kwan Lee,Ming Sing Pdf

In a comprehensive and theoretically novel analysis, Take Back Our Future unveils the causes, processes, and implications of the 2014 seventy-nine-day occupation movement in Hong Kong known as the Umbrella Movement. The essays presented here by a team of experts with deep local knowledge ask: how and why had a world financial center known for its free-wheeling capitalism transformed into a hotbed of mass defiance and civic disobedience? Take Back Our Future argues that the Umbrella Movement was a response to China's internal colonization strategies—political disenfranchisement, economic subsumption, and identity reengineering—in post-handover Hong Kong. The contributors outline how this historic and transformative movement formulated new cultural categories and narratives, fueled the formation and expansion of civil society organizations and networks both for and against the regime, and spurred the regime's turn to repression and structural closure of dissent. Although the Umbrella Movement was fraught with internal tensions, Take Back Our Future demonstrates that the movement politicized a whole generation of people who had no prior experience in politics, fashioned new subjects and identities, and awakened popular consciousness.

Author : David H. Weaver,Lars Willnat
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000153095

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The Global Journalist in the 21st Century by David H. Weaver,Lars Willnat Pdf

The Global Journalist in the 21st Century systematically assesses the demographics, education, socialization, professional attitudes and working conditions of journalists in various countries around the world. This book updates the original Global Journalist (1998) volume with new data, adding more than a dozen countries, and provides material on comparative research about journalists that will be useful to those interested in doing their own studies. The editors put together this collection working under the assumption that journalists’ backgrounds, working conditions and ideas are related to what is reported (and how it is covered) in the various news media round the world, in spite of societal and organizational constraints, and that this news coverage matters in terms of world public opinion and policies. Outstanding features include: Coverage of 33 nations located around the globe, based on recent surveys conducted among representative samples of local journalists Comprehensive analyses by well-known media scholars from each country A section on comparative studies of journalists An appendix with a collection of survey questions used in various nations to question journalists As the most comprehensive and reliable source on journalists around the world, The Global Journalist will serve as the primary source for evaluating the state of journalism. As such, it promises to become a standard reference among journalism, media, and communication students and researchers around the world.