Table of contents
Introduction: Legitimisation, resistance and discursive struggles in contemporary China
Part 1: Political discourse
Chapter 1. Disembodied words: The ritualistic quality of political discourse in the era of Jiang Zemin
Chapter 2. ‘Stability overwhelms everything’: Analysing the legitimating effect of the stability discourse since 1989
Chapter 3. A decade of change in China: A corpus-based discourse analysis of ten government work reports
Chapter 4. It’s a small world after all? Simulating the future world order at the Shanghai Expo
Part 2: Media discourse
Chapter 5. Discourse of journalism and legitimacy in post-reform China
Chapter 6. China’s Road to Revival: “Writing” the PRC’s struggles for modernization
Chapter 7. China’s soft power: Formulations, contestations and communication
Chapter 8. Issues in discourse approach to social transformations in China: A synopsis
Author biography
Index