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Jeremy Paxman and Bai Yansong spoke at the Future of Public Media workshop in Beijing
China Media Centre hosted leading TV stars as they shared insights on the opportunities for potential China-UK media partnerships Jeremy Paxman (principal news and current affairs presenter, BBC), Wang Hui (Head of Communications, City of Beijing) in the chair, Bai Yansong (principal news and current affairs presenter, CCTV) Jeremy Paxman and China’s leading current affairs presenter and writer Bai Yansong joined Paul Jackson [...]
Director’s Blog Day Two
China’s culture industries. Last month the 4 day annual meeting of the Central Committee took place with the theme of enlivening the ‘cultural system’. Chinese culture, in the sense of publishing, artworks and the appreciation of historical artefacts is developing very richly without any need of the Central Committee. New schools and universities are being [...]
Day one – what’s the focus of this blog to be?
Although this is a blog for the China Media Centre, I want to make my focus not so much the Chinese media, on which there are already some useful websites in English, but one about which British people in the political milieu badly need to know more: How China works. A recent Daily Telegraph cartoon [...]
Communication and China • Fudan Forum (2011)
Interaction and Communication: The City in Transition The city is a physical entity, a place of human inhabitation and a center of economy, politics and culture. The city represents a network of interaction and communication, and the indicator of human living conditions and the pattern of their relationships as well. From the beginning, communication and [...]
“To the Yellow Crane Pavilion With Our Leaky Umbrella: Reflections on the Future for Chinese Media” – Professor Hugo de Burgh’s inaugural lecture
As China recovers from the Great Leap Backwards and re-establishes herself as a leading civilisation, what parts will the media play? And will the categories and framings that we Anglo-Americans are accustomed to applying – our leaky umbrella – help us to understand them? In examining these questions, Hugo de Burgh takes examples from newspapers and the internet, television and periodicals as illustrations of the Chinese communications revolution.
