Chin-Chuan Lee is Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota and Director of the China Times Center for Media and Social Studies. In the School of Journalism and Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Joseph Man Chan is Professor and Clement Y. K. So is Associate Professor. Zhongdang Pan is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

"This exciting and innovative study of a major media event shows that media elites reproduce the assumptions and interests dominant in their country and in international global events take the position of constructing discursive contestations of other countries, while promoting their own country's interests and agendas." — Douglas Kellner, author of Media Culture: Cultural Studies, Identity and Politics Between the Modern and the Postmodern"Global Media Spectacle is an absorbing book about news stories, beautifully written and packed with fascinating details and rich insights. The authors sift through a mountain of media texts and weave a diverse body of material into an engaging narrative. The quotes from the news media are both colorful and illustrative." — Yuezhi Zhao, Simon Fraser University

• Figures and Tables Preface Acknowledgments 1. Global Event, National Prisms 2. News Staging 3. Domestication of Global News 4. Hyping and Repairing News Paradigms 5. Banging the Democracy Drum: From the Superpower 6. Essentializing Colonialism: Heroes and Villains 7. Defining the Nation-State: One Event, Three Stories 8. Human Rights and National Interest: From the Middle Powers 9. Media Event as Global Discursive Contestation Epilogue: After the Handover Appendix I. Sampled Media Organizations Appendix II. Interviewees Appendix III. Guideline for Interview Appendix IV. Content Analysis Appendix V. Coding Scheme Notes Bibliography Authors Index