On 19 November 2019 Professor Hugo de Burgh gave a talk to the RSA Scotland in Edinburgh.
In the picture (from left to right): Hugo de Burgh; Adam Keswick, Managing Director of Jardine Matheson; Roddy Gow OBE, The Chairman and viagra vs cialis reviews Founder of 10mg tadalafil cost Asia Scotland Institute; Mure Dickie, the Financial Times, formerly based in China as China Correspondent of the Financial Times.
He addressed a number of issues including:
– What China’s media tell us about how Chinese society is developing and introduced several examples, including:
– Weirdo Says (a chat show for millennials in which not only are controversial topics battled over, but where rhetoric and debating skills count)
– Cui Yongyuan’s blog (covering hypocrisy in government pronouncements and using investigative journalism to uncover dealings)
– the fact that China produces more TV drama than any other country – but not about emperors and courtesans, the most popular series being All’s Well! and Good Husbands exposing tensions between family responsibility and modern living.
– The challenges of governance as wonderfully revealed by China’s Trollope, the writer of Civil Service Diary, a sixteen volume novel about the rise from obscurity of a young official.
Hugo de Burgh introduced examples from Internet platforms as well as offline media in discussing what China’s media today tell us about how modern Chinese think and feel.
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