The Narrative Of Taiwan Newspaper On Cross-strait News Events

In recent years, the cross-straits relations have been improved and maintain close economic ties. Taiwan’s awareness of participation in the transaction on both sides is increasing. In these circumstances, how do Taiwan’s newspapers report the events on both sides and what are their narrative characteristics and rules would be the issues in our research.The paper selects the reports about "Agreement on Trade in Services""Working body" and "The Legend of Zhen Huan" in "China Times""Liberty Times""United Daily News" as the study objects, based on theory of narratology, to carry qualitative and quantitative analysis from the narrative object, narrative structure and narrative focus respectively, finding the narrative characteristics of Taiwan’s newspapers.The study found that "China Times""Liberty Times" and "United Daily News" pay more attention with the economic impact of cross-strait cooperation on Taiwan."China Times" bases upon circumstance and takes good use of character language expressing opinions indirectly, which has pan-blue color."Liberty Times" aims to criticize ma government for popular support. It likes to use virtual vocabulary to report news and replace events with the editorial, which has greenish color."United Daily News" is good at expressing opinions with facts, which reports is a little is conservative. The three papers all lack the voice of the Taiwanese people and mainland.The narrative features also reflect three states existing in Taiwan society. Firstly, some people Start to look for social participation and new changes, but they have the problem of weak thoughts. Secondly, most young people don’t pay attention to the political life, they escape political disputes. Thirdly, some people become self-abasement for Taiwanese economy. Essentially, reports reflect that the two parties fight for the initiative to get more weight in cross-straits negotiations.