Introduction: Legitimisation, resistance and discursive struggles in contemporary China
Qing Cao
1 – 22
Part 1: Political discourse
Chapter 1. Disembodied words: The ritualistic quality of political discourse in the era of Jiang Zemin
Maurizio Marinelli
25 – 46
Chapter 2. ‘Stability overwhelms everything’: Analysing the legitimating effect of the stability discourse since 1989
Peter Sandby-Thomas
47 – 76
Chapter 3. A decade of change in China: A corpus-based discourse analysis of ten government work reports
Yufang Qian and Hailong Tian
77 – 96
Chapter 4. It’s a small world after all?: Simulating the future world order at the Shanghai Expo
Florian Schneider
97 – 120
Part 2: Media discourse
Chapter 5. Discourse of journalism and legitimacy in post-reform China
Jingrong Tong
123 – 144
Chapter 6. China’s Road to Revival: “Writing” the PRC’s struggles for modernization
Florian Schneider and Yih-jye Hwang
145 – 170
Chapter 7. China’s soft power: Formulations, contestations and communication
Qing Cao
171 – 194
Chapter 8. Issues in discourse approach to social transformations in China: A synopsis
Hailong Tian and Paul Chilton
195 – 208
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