The 3rd Global China Dialogue (GCD III)

Sustainability and Global Governance for Climate Change

China and the Chinese people are currently making an important contribution to the new world order and shaping a global society. What are the important global issues that concern China? What are the Chinese ways of thinking and doing things with respect to global issues? We provide a platform engaging both Chinese and non-Chinese in dialogue with China on a range of common concerns for the future of our world, including development, education, economics, migration, the family, the environment, public health, human security and global governance. The Global China Dialogue series (GCDs) focuses on these issues to enhance public understanding of current global affairs and common interests through public dialogue and discussion between Chinese and non-Chinese academics, experts, professionals and practitioners and interested laypeople, from interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives. The GCDs also develop the rules of “civilised dialogue”, encouraging both sides to listen to the other, understand cultural differences, respect local customs, accept different perspectives and acknowledge the common destiny of humanity. In particular, they explore new global governance, encompassing national governments, international organisations, multinational companies, NGOs and citizens, with a mission to building a harmonious, symbiosis-based global community. Two dialogues have already been held in 2014 and 2015, the proceedings of which has been published by Global China Press. Below is the details of the 3^rd GCD.

Date: Friday-Saturday, 2-3 December 2016

Venues:

• The British Academy
• The House of Commons
• UK Parliament, King’s College London

Themes:

• Reviewing the Paris Agreement from a governance perspective
• Sustainability in China’s green revolution
• Corpus-based discourse studies on climate change
• Delivering the Sustainable Development Goals

Structure:

• Part one: A one-day event for the GCD III on Sustainability and Global Governance for Climate Change including the above themes, at the British Academy, Friday, 2nd December 2016.
• Part two: An evening event for networking at the House of Commons of the UK Parliament, on Friday, 2nd December 2016.
• Part three: A one-day workshop on Corpus Approach to Chinese Social Science (CACSS) at UCL, Saturday, the 3rd December 2016.

Chairs:

• Professor Kerry Brown, Director of Lau China Institute, King’s College London
• Professor Xiangqun Chang, Director of CCPN Global; Honorary Professor of UCL
• Professor Hugo de Burgh, Director of China Media Centre, University of Westminster

Keynote speakers:

Professor Lord Anthony Giddens, British leading sociologist and social theorist, former Director and Emeritus Professor of LSE, UK

Professor Dayong Hong, Professor of Sociology, Vice-President, Renmin University of China; Vice-General Secretary of the Chinese Sociological Association, China

Panel chairs, speakers and discussants (in alphabetical order):

• Emeritus Professor Martin Albrow FAcSS, Honorary Vice President of the British Sociological Association (BSA); Emeritus Professor of University of Wales, UK
• Lord Michael Bates, formal Deputy Chairman of the House of Lords, the UK Parliament; Minister of State at the Department for International Development, UK
• Professor Kerry Brown, Director of the Lau China Institute, King’s College London, UK
• Dr Qing Cao, Senior Lecturer in Chinese, Director of Studies in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University, UK
• Professor Xiangqun Chang, Director of CCPN Global; Honorary Professor of UCL, UK
• Dr CHEN Yan, General Director of China Europa Forum, France
• Professor Olaf Corry, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Ms Ingrid Cranfield, Governor of CCPN Global Governing Board, President of Global China Press, former Deputy Mayor of the London Borough of Enfield, UK
• Dr Carmen Dayrell, Senior Research Associate at CASS, Lancaster University, UK
• Professor Hugo de Burgh, Director of the China Media Centre, University of Westminster, UK
• Professor Robert Falkner, Associate Professor of International Relations, Co-Director, Dahrendorf Project, Academic Director, TRIUM Global EMBA, London School of Economics and Political Science
• Mr Charles Grant, Director of Centre for European Reform, UK; Trustee of CCPN Global
• Professor Yeguo Gu, Director, China Multilingual & Multimodal Corpora & Big Data Research Centre, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Beijing Foreign Studies University, China
• Mr Philip Hao, President, YES Global; CEO, UVIC Group, UK; Vice-General Secretary, CCPN-Global
• Mr Alex Kirby, retired award-winning BBC journalist and UN trainer of journalists reporting on sustainability and climate change in the developing world
• Professor Jiaojiang Luo, Dean of the Institute of Social Development, Wuhan University, China; General Secretory of CCPN Global
• Professor Tony McEnery FAcSS, Director and Investigator of ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, Lancaster University; ECRC Research Director, UK
• Professor Kerstin Mey, Pro Vice-Chancellor of Westminster, Dean of the Westminster School of Media, Arts and Design, UK
• Mr Dennis Pamlin, Founder of 21st Frontiers Research Centre, Sweden
• Professor Geoffrey PLEYERS, Director of Global College, University of Louvain, Belgium
• Professor Yufang Qian, Director of Research Centre for Discourse and Communications, Zhejiang University of Media and Communications, China
• Dr Mike Scott, Aston University; Founder of the Lexical Analysis Software, UK
• Dr Fang Wang, Researcher, University of Birmingham, UK
• Mr XIANG Xiaowei, Minister counselor, Culture Office, Chinese Embassy to the UK
• Dr Zhang Jianyu, Head of Beijing Office, the US Environmental Defence Fund (tbc)
• Professor Letian Zhang, Director of the Center for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Director of Contemporary China Social Life Data and Research Center (CCSLC), Fudan University; and Co-Director of the CCPN Global
  • Dr Joy Zhang, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent, UK

Organizers:

• CCPN Global (China in Comparative Perspective Network Global, Charity No.: 1154640; an affiliate member of the Academy of Social Sciences)
• Lau China Institute, King’s College London, UK
• The China Media Centre, University of Westminster, UK
• YES Global, UK

Supporters (in alphabetical order)

• Centre for Applied Linguistics, University College London, UK
• Centre for European Reform, UK
• Centre for Translation Studies, SOAS, University of London, UK
• China–Europa Forum, France
• Chopsticks Club, UK
• Contemporary China Social Life Data and Research Center (CCSLC), Fudan University, China
• ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, UK
• Global China Press, UK
• Global China Unit, UK
• Journal of China in Comparative Perspective, UK
• Lau China Institute, Kingâ€s College London, UK
• London Society for Chinese Studies
• New World Press, China
• Research Centre for Discourse and Communications, Zhenjiang University of Media and Communication, China
• Research Centre for Social Cultural Anthropology, Fudan University, China
• Research Centre for Social Theory, Peking University, China
• Research Centre for Studies of Sociological Theory and Methods, Renmin University of China
• Society for Anglo–Chinese Understanding (SACU), UK
• The British Association for Chinese Studies (BACS), UK
• The British Postgraduate Network for Chinese Studies (BPCS), UK
• The British Sociological Association (BSA), UK
• The Chinese Sociological Association (CSA), China
• The Institute of Social Development, Wuhan University, China

 

Sponsors (in alphabetical order)

• Cypress Books Co. Ltd, UK
• Institute of Suzhou Studies, Wuhan University, China
• Learning without Borders, China
  • MyOffer (Global University Web Portal), China
• Shanghai Tenly Software Incorporated, China
• UVIC Group, UK
• Vanishing Worlds Foundation, UK

Media suppers

• ChinaNet
• XinhuaNet
• Interactive Media Britain

Registration (Click HERE to online registration page):

• Free for the CACSS workshop, but registration is requested, Click HERE for registration
• £180 for the GCD III, Click HERE to register and pay for the fee
• £280 for the GCD III and Reception, Click HERE to register

Website: see updated info at http://www.dialogue.global-china.org

Contact: events@ccpn-global.org

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The conference will be held on 09 April 2016 from 09:00 to 17:00 at 35 Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5LS.

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25 MA students  from Hong Kong Baptist University, specialising in Financial Journalism, attended the CMC study trip “Financial and Economic Reporting in the UK” from 3 January until 10 January 2010. The delegation was lead by Prof Huang Yu, who took his PhD at the University of Westminster under Professor Colin Sparks and is Head of Department of Journalism at Hong Kong Baptist University. Among highlights were visits to the Financial Times, London Stock Exchange, BBC and City of London. The trip was designed by Dr Zeng Rong and managed by Alja Kranjec.

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“Oxford may be rueing the day it decided to enter its researchers into the communication [category], the institution was beaten by… Westminster” – Times Higher Education Magazine

“A media studies department at a former polytechnic is among the top-rated academic centres in Britain in the latest official rankings of the quality of university research. Sixty per cent of the research published by the school of Media Arts and Design at Westminster University… was rated as “world-leading” by the Research Assessment Exercise”. – The Times

Communications, cultural and media studies research at the University of Westminster has been shown to be “world-leading” following the announcement today of the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) results.

Researchers across a broad range of subjects at the University, which is a leading post-92 institution, have had their work shown to be of international quality in the latest assessment of UK university research activity. Nearly 80 per cent of Westminsterâ€s research was found to be of a quality that is recognised internationally for its “originality, significance and rigour”.

Art and Design, Architecture and the Built Environment, Geography and Environment Studies and Law also stood out for the international quality of the research.

Sally Feldman, dean of the Universityâ€s School of Media, Arts and Design, said: “This is a fantastic result and a reflection of the excellent scholarship, research and practice that characterises our work here at Westminster.”

The RAE, the first since 2001, highlights Westminsterâ€s traditional strength across a broad range of research activity, said Vice-Chancellor Professor Geoffrey Petts.

“This result highlights that the University of Westminster is producing research of international quality across a broad range of subjects, with communications and media studies world-leading in their work.

“We were assessed in 20 areas of work, which is an indication of the breadth of our work as well as the quality. It is also an indication that our research is being recognised for its potential to make a real difference in the world.

“Iâ€m delighted Westminster was found to be so strong, especially as we are one of the group of universities created in 1992 that have traditionally received less funding than longer-established, research-led universities.”

The RAE, the first since 2001, saw 159 higher education institutions submitting their research to the Higher Education Funding Council for England for assessment. Over 200,000 individual pieces of research work were submitted.

—-From the website of University of Westminster.And here is a related article written in Chinese, from Chinese news media.

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随着国é…交流的日益深入以及中国广播电视事业的不断发展，近年来，西方大学的媒体、传播及相关专业一直是社会科学领域中最受中国ç•å­¦ç”Ÿé’睐的热门学科之一。2008å¹´12月18日，英国官方机构公布了几年一度的科研考评报告 (Research Assessment Exercise，RAE)，其中部分内容对英国各大学媒体传播专业的学术研究水平进行了全面而详细的评估。威斯敏斯特大学（University of Westminster）以较大优势名列第一名，伦敦政治经济学é¢ï¼ˆLSE）和伦敦大学金.史密斯学é¢ï¼ˆGoldsmiths College）以相当接近的分数名列第二、第三。

作为英国政府高等æ•è‚²è´¨é‡æŽ§åˆ¶çš„最重要的指标之一，RAE一直得到各个大学的高度重视。不仅仅因为它直接关系到政府æ•è‚²æ‹¨æ¬¾çš„数目、科研经费申请的成功率，更因为它关系着各é¢ç³»å¯¹ä¼˜ç§€æ•æŽˆçš„吸引力以及由此所影响的学生æ•è‚²æ°´å¹³ã€‚有英国大学申请经历的人士会注意到，几乎所有大学在学生申请信息手册上都明确注明该校各个专业的RAE分数，以此为申请者提供重要参考。

上一次的英国大学科研考评（RAE）公布于2001年。威斯敏斯特大学著名媒体æ•æŽˆã€ã€Šåª’体、文化与社会》主编科林.斯巴克斯æ•æŽˆå¯¹æœ€æ–°å…¬å¸ƒçš„RAE考评结果表示深感欣慰。他说：“本次考评对我们来说是极大的鼓舞，它再一次证明了威敏媒体专业在英国以及世界的领先地位。为此，我们的每一位同事都非常努力的工作……”同时，他也指出，其实各个学校各有专长。金.史密斯学é¢çš„媒体文化研究，伦敦政治经济学é¢çš„新媒体以及媒体社会心理学领域，牛津大学的互联网研究以及谢菲尔德大学的政治传播学等等都非常出色。而威斯敏斯特大学的强项是英国及欧洲媒体历史与政策、受众研究以及世界媒体研究。尤其是对中国、中东以及东欧国家媒体的深入研究和探讨非常深入而有特色，比如由戴雨果æ•æŽˆé¢†å¯¼çš„中国传媒中心在欧洲和中国都享有盛誉。他建议学生在申请英国大学的时å€ï¼Œå°¤å…¶æ˜¯æ”»è¯»ç ”究生学位的申请者，不要盲目追求排名，首先要明确自己的兴趣，然后在此基础上对学校进行选择。

本次RAE采用了与以往不同的计量方法。它对各é¢ç³»æäº¤çš„所有科研成果按五个级别进行打分。五个级别分别是：“4* ”世界领先水平、“3*”国é…优秀水平、“2*”国é…认可水平、“1*”国家认可水平以及“0”无级别。接受RAE评估的全部159所英国大学中，包括人文、社会、科学与工程在内的所有学科与é¢ç³»ï¼Œ60%达到4*世界领先级别的一共有五个é¢ç³»ï¼Œå¨æ–¯æ•æ–¯ç‰¹å¤§å­¦çš„媒体专业为其中之一，再次肯定了英国大学在媒体学科领域的出色表现。而莱卡斯特大学的博物馆学以65%世界领先的评价获得总排名的最高分。

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本次RAE评估把媒体传播专业与其他一些文化学科归在同一评价类别，比如博物馆学、创意英文å†ä½œç­‰ç­‰ã€‚è¿æ ·çš„分类显然有些笼统，有时造成误读。笼统分类的名单中，笔者把以媒体传播专业（不包括电影）为主的é¢ç³»æç‚¼å‡ºæ¥ã€‚最右边的栏目GPA，是英国泰æ¤å£«æŠ¥é«˜æ•ä¸“栏根据RAE结果计算统计的综合得分。以下为各é¢ç³»åª’体专业前十名的大学：

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China Central Television was the venue for a 2-day Workshop on British journalism organized by China Media Centre in October 2009. Speakers were Hugo de Burgh, CMC Director, Kevin Sutcliffe, C4â€s Head of Current Affairs, Steve Hewlett, presenter of BBCâ€s The Media Show, Zhang Jie, Editor of CCTVâ€s News Investigation and Yang Rui, Presenter of CCTVâ€s Dialogue.

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‘China and the New Green Dealâ€, a China Media Centre conference, was held in Parliament in June 2009. It was the 6^th 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 British business. It was hosted by the All Party Parliamentary Group on China and sponsored by Norton Rose. 170 people attended, from business, the policy world and media.

One of CMCâ€s research themes, along with regulation, journalism and innovation in the media, is the relationship between media and environment. This seminar is one of several initiatives connected with this theme, including a workshop at Caijing magazine in  Peking, producing a report on journalism and the environment for International Media Support and being knowledge partner for the October Wilton Park Conference on Chinaâ€s environment.

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This is a conference of the China Media Centre for the APPCG, with Knowledge Partner, Norton Rose LLP. With assistance from the Chinese Embassy and Chinadialogue http://www.chinadialogue.net/

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Representations of China in the UK Press

Speaker: Prof. Colin Sparks
Date: Wednesday 18th November, 2009
Time: 2.00-4.00 pm
Venue: MHW_A4-4 Harrow Campus,
University of Westminster

Abstract:

The Chinese government, together with many ordinary Chinese people, particularly students, are frequently angered by the way in which China is portrayed in the western media. This anger, however, is a response to the coverage of particular incidents and is not based on real knowledge of how China is covered on a day to day basis.

This presentation reports on a project that made a start on a more systematic study of the subject. The analysis covers the UK national press reporting of China during 2008 and presents data on the frequency and distribution of stories. It also reports a more detailed qualitative study of China in the elite and popular press, demonstrating that analyses concentrating on small-circulation up-market newspapers risk seriously misrepresenting the ways in which China is portrayed in the press. The seminar will be in English but some of the material is available in translation.

Biography:

Prof. Colin Sparks has worked with and advised the European Union, Unesco, the Open Society Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the British Council, Universities in the US, Europe and East Asia, and many other organisations, academic, official, and non-governmental. He was one of the founders of Media, Culture and Society, and he continues to play an active role as managing editor, as well as editing issues on a regular basis. He was also a founder of the European Institute for Communication and Culture. He has organised several of its colloquia, and edited themed issues of its journal Javnost/The Public.
His current research interests include the comparative study of media systems undergoing rapid change. He is particularly interested in comparing the media systems of post-communist countries with those of other societies that have moved away from different forms of dictatorship towards more democratic forms of political rule. His other major current interest is in theories of media and communication.

(more about Prof. Sparks, see https://chinamediacentre.org/about/staff/colin-sparks/ )
If you have any inquiry about CMC events,  please contact Miao Mi at m.mi@my.westminster.ac.uk.

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The CMC director, Hugo de Burgh, 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) with a conference called Working in China on Sustainable Growth — The Climate Change, Environment, Energy Nexus. The Vice Chancellor, Prof Geoffrey Petts, Visiting Professor Hu Zhengrong (Deputy President, China Communications University), Prof Hugo de Burgh and Dr Zeng Rong participated and represented University of Westminster. For further information please click on the link below.

Report on Wilton Park Conference WP1000 Final 281009

CONFERENCE ON BRITISH JOURNALISM

CUC and CMC are holding a conference in Beijing in October 2009. CMC is supplying 2 celebrity UK journalists Stephen Hewlett and Kevin Sutcliffe (paid for under the IMS contract) and its Director to speak at a CUC conference in October 2009. Steve Hewlett both presents The Media Show and writes regularly for The Guardian. He has a terrific track record as reporter and producer as well as in newspaper journalism.  Kevin Sutcliffe is Deputy Head of News & Current Affairs at C4 and has been responsible for the renaissance of the investigative series DISPATCHES. CUC has undertaken to provide an audience of influential media managers from the mainstream

FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR

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EU Commissioner Orban and Chinese Minister for Culture, a French Diplomat and the CMC Director are the speakers at the EU-China Forum at the Frankfurt Book Fair on 15 October.

STATE COUNCIL

The highest-level ever delegation from Chinaâ€s State Council Information Office undertook a three week course designed for the China Media Centre by Simon Goldsworthy and Visiting Professor Trevor Morris, experts in branding and PR. Among the highlights were a colloquy with Lord Bell and senior figures at Chime Communications plc; visits to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Cabinet Office, the BBC and the Guardian Newspaper; talks about advertising from Sir Chris Powell and on the use of new media from former Cabinet Office minister Tom Watson MP; and a lecture in Edinburgh from John Brown, a PR expert who formerly shared an office at Scottish TV with his brother the current Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, and CMC Director Professor Hugo de Burgh.

SUMMER SCHOOLS

The China Media Centre has held its first 2 Summer Schools for Chinese media students. In July this was directed by former Reuters Editor Paul Majendie and in September by TV producer Dr Richard Wright. The students both learnt about the European media and undertook practical tasks, making TV features under the direction of Journalism Head of Department Geoffrey Davies. Both summer schools were managed by Alja Kranjec, who hopes to hold at least two each year from now on.

INNOVATION 1

In October CMC launches another first, a course specially designed for Chinese TV executives by Dr Zeng Rong entitled Innovation, creativity and programme development in UK television. This course is full; if successful CMC expects to offer it twice each year.

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China’s Media Handlers

A key issue in modern public affairs, following the Tibet crisis and Sichuan disaster, and before the Olympics.

Who are the people who manage media relations in China? How do they work?

Steven Guanpeng Dong

Trainer of China’s official spokesmen for the State Council Information Office; former CCTV journalist and Lecturer at Tsinghua University’s School of Journalism and Communication

In the chair: David Hill, formerly Tony Blair’s Director of Communications, now working at Bell Pottinger Group

with Lord (Tim) Bell

Host: Professor Simon Jarvis, Pro Vice-Chancellor,

University of Westminster

Entry is free and open to all

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