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‘China and the New Green Deal’, a China Media Centre conference, was held in Parliament in June 2009. It was the 6th conference on China held by CMC in Parliament.

A one-day CMC seminar was held in the Houses of Parliament to address the implications of China’s management of its environmental challenges for government policy and [...]

ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE LIBERAL DEMOCRAT PARTY

The Director spoke on China and joined the Chinese Ambassador Ms Fu Ying on a panel which also included the Lib-Dem Leader in the Upper House, Lord McNulty, and the Shadow Foreign Affairs Secretary Michael Moore MP.
WILTON PARK

The CMC partnered Wilton Park (an Executive Agency of the Foreign Office) [...]

This month’s issue of the China Review features a review of Will Hutton’s controversial new book ‘The Writing on the Wall: China and the West in the 21st Century‘ by CMC Director, Professor Hugo de Burgh.
In his review, Professor de Burgh opposes Will Hutton’s negative assessment of China’s economic and political situation. Professor de Burgh [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]