Abstract: This study is an investigation into the similarities and differences of journalistic styles between mainland China and Taiwan.It attempts to show that apart from the subjectivity of the communicators,the change of communicative context serves as a dynamic that brings about the accretion of alien elements in journalistic style as well as the formation of individuality.As journalism in mainland China has,since 1949,been developing in an isolated context,its style is a combination of modernity,popularity and n...