Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part 1: Political discourse
5. Chapter 1. Disembodied words 25
6. Chapter 2. ‘Stability overwhelms everything’ 47
7. Chapter 3. A decade of change in China 77
8. Chapter 4. It’s a small world after all? 97
9. Part 2: Media discourse
10. Chapter 5. Discourse of journalism and legitimacy in post-reform China 123
11. Chapter 6. China’s Road to Revival 145
12. Chapter 7. China’s soft power 171
13. Chapter 8. Issues in discourse approach to social transformations in China 195
14. Author biography 209
15. Index 211