China Media Centre

The China Media Centre is Europe's only organisation specializing in the world's largest media system.

Who: Professor Hugo de Burgh
What: Lecture ‘What is a journalist? What is a Chinese Investigative Journalist?’
Where: London School of Economics, U8 Tower One
When: Wednesday 14 February 2007
This lecture is open to the public.  If you would like to attend, more details can be found on the LSESU China Development Society Seminars webpage.

Engaging with the wider academic community, debating developments in China’s media and sharing our research experience with business and industry groups are important aspects of work at the CMC.

Professor Hugo de Burgh, Director of the China Media Centre, has been appointed Honoured Professor at Tsinghua University as part of the PRC 985 International Leading Scholar Program Second Round/Specialist Plan for the Introduction of Key Knowledge and Talents.
Professor de Burgh has also been appointed Honorary Professor at Shandong University.
Professor Hu Zhengrong, who spent 6 months at the CMC [...]

The China Media Centre will host a series of five hearings in the British Houses of Parliament from March to June 2007.  The hearings will discuss the implications of China’s rapid growth for the UK’s economy.  High level officials, policy makers and business people will discuss UK policy responses to China’s rise.
If you would like to [...]

In August Professor Hugo de Burgh spoke with Adam Connors on SBS Radio’s World View program about his new book China Friend or Foe. According to professor de Burgh, while China’s media is often viewed by outsiders as a mouthpiece of the party, journalists and the media are playing a much more complex role than many realise.  Click [...]

Professor Hugo Deburgh reports on David Willetts recent tour of China. A successful event facilitated by the China Media Centre.

One of the biggest resources of the China Media Centre is the fantastic body of students from China who come to London each year to undertake post-graduate courses. Getting to know these students, learning about their experiences of the Chinese media and letting them know about the research and other projects of the CMC [...]

The 2007 China Media Centre Conference will be held from 5-6 July 2007 at the Creative Industries Precinct in Brisbane Australia. The theme is China|East Asia|Media|New Media.
The call for papers is now available.
Submission deadline for papers is November 30, 2006.
Abstracts should be submitted by 30 November 2006. Fully refereed proceedings (R) are due by 31 [...]

What does China’s media tell us about the fastest growing economy in the world? Investigative journalism is developing in print and broadcast, but how questioning is it allowed to be? How do news agencies operate? Now that commercial television has arrived, what kind of advertisements are acceptable? And how is the government dealing with the [...]