REPORTING ON BRITAIN FOR READERS IN CHINA

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China Media Centre 2014 Winter Seminar

REPORTING ON BRITAIN FOR READERS IN CHINA

Speaker: Ms LI Wenyun

Date: Wednesday 19th February 2014

Time: 2-4pm

Venue: A1.04

Chair: Professor Hugo de Burgh

OPEN TO ALL

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LI Wenyun is coming to the end of her posting as the UK bureau chief of the People’s Daily.  The People’s Daily is China’s leading newspaper of record, the leading Party newspaper which has been going through enormous changes in recent years. It now has a very successful online edition, Renminwang, and many other spin offs.

She has been reporting for the newspaper in London for the past three years, but has worked for the People’s Daily for more than thirty years, having joined its International News Department in 1976.  She was previously the paper’s India bureau chief in Delhi (1998-2001) and the Western USA bureau chief in Los Angeles (2003-2007).

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If you have any inquiry about CMC events, please contact Alja Kranjec at A.Kranjec@westminster.ac.uk

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Professor Hugo de Burgh has been awarded the Honoured Endowment Professorship

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Professor Hugo de Burgh, Director of China Media Centre, School of Media, Arts and Design has been awarded the Honoured Endowment Professorship from the Department of International Expertise, Peoples Republic of China and formally appointed as the Adjunct Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, China University of Political Science and Law. He is expected to give ten lectures each year at Tsinghua University and to be in residence for two months. Professor de Burgh is to give a public lecture on Working with Chinese Media, an Anglophone Perspective at Tsinghua University on 19 December 2013.

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Note: Professor de Burgh with Jeremy Paxman at the Future of Public Media workshop organised by the China Media Centre of the University of Westminster and the Communications University of China.

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THE HIGHS AND LOWS OF REPORTING FROM CHINA

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China Media Centre 2013 Autumn Seminar

Speaker: Michael Bristow

Date: Wednesday 20th November

Time: 2-4pm

Venue: A1.06

Chair: Professor Hugo de Burgh

OPEN TO ALL

The highs and comprar viagra lows of reporting from China – Michael Bristow talks about his time in Beijing as a journalist for the BBC and the China Daily.

Michael Bristow has been a journalist for 20 years, starting out as a newspaper reporter and then moving into broadcasting. He’s reported from Taiwan and more recently from China. He left Beijing last year after spending five years there as a correspondent for the BBC, appearing on TV and radio and writing for the news website.

He had previously worked for the China Daily on two separate occasions totalling two years.  Michael now works in the new BBC headquarters in London as a regional editor – for East Asia and the Pacific – on the World Service.

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Communicating Soft Power: Contrasting Perspectives from India and China

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Date:
9 September 2013 -10 September 2013
Time: 9.00am – 7.00pm

Organized by the India Media Centre and the China Media Centre of the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) of the University of Westminster, London

The notion of soft power, associated with the work of Harvard political scientist Joseph Nye, is defined as ‘the ability to attract people to our side without coercion’. Nye’s concept, whose focus is primarily on the United States, has been adopted or adapted by countries around the world. It has generated much debate about the capacity of nations to make themselves attractive in a globalizing marketplace for ideas and acheter levitra en bulgarie images.

This two-day international conference will explore competing and contrasting approaches to soft power in India and China, the world’s two fastest growing economies whose rise is set to reconfigure global power equations in a multi-polar world. The conference will discuss the American origins of the concept and how it has been extrapolated in non-American contexts, namely in India and China. Contributors to the conference will examine whether soft power needs to be de-Americanized and expanded to be more inclusive, and historicised to take account of the role of countries and civilizations, such as India and China, in the global communication sphere. India’s global cultural presence is primarily driven by its privately-owned creative and cultural industries – it is home to the world’s largest film industry, as well as a hub for the global IT industry. In the case of China, the state has taken the commanding role in promoting the country’s soft power to supplement its hard economic prowess, as the world’s second largest economy. This is evident in the Chinese government’s extensive investment in international broadcasting as well as in setting up Confucius Institutes around the globe.

The University of Westminster, which hosts the highest-ranked research department in media and communication in the UK, is home to specialist media research facilities in the China Media and India Media Centres. This pioneering attempt to discuss Asian soft power in a comparative framework will provide an opportunity to examine the strengths and limitations of the idea of soft power, deploying a multi-perspectival approach. Read more →

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