Co-organised by the Global China Institute, the Lau China Institute, (King’s College London), the China Media Centre (University of Westminster), and the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies (Renmin University of China), the event will take place on 7 December 2018, with additional options of Pre- and Post-Dialogue events.

Panels: 

• Inclusion  
• Environment
• Rights
• Conflicts    

Schedule: 

• Pre-Dialogue event: Thursday 6 December, 14:00-17:00 Digital Interconnection and Intelligent Manufacturing– Social Change and Cultural Transformation in Global Society Workshop, the University of Westminster
• Friday 7 December, 08:30-17:00 The Dialogue, the British Academy [Friday 7 December, 18:00-20:00 Reception, the UK Parliament (invited speakers and participants who have paid the full registration fees)]
• Post-Dialogue event: Saturday 8 December, 10:00-16:00, Academic Publishing and Knowledge Service Forum on China and China in Comparative Studies, King’s College London.

Programme (to be updated): Attached separately or click HERE

Speakers (in alphabetical order):

• Professor Sandra Fredman FBA, QC (hon), Rhodes Professor of the Laws of the British Commonwealth and the USA, Facuty of Law, University of Oxford, UK [tbc]
• Professor Lord Anthony Giddens, former Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK
• Ms Dorothy Guerrero, Head of Policy and Advocacy, Global Justice Now, UK
• Dr Marek Hrubec, Director and a Senior Fellow of the Department of Moral and Political Philosophy and the Centre of Global Studies, Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
• Dr HUANG Jialiang, Associate Professor, Deputy Dean of the School of Sociology and Demography, Renmin University of China; Secretary General of Legal Sociology Specialized Committee, Chinese Sociological Association, China
• Professor Martin Jacques, Senior Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge, UK; Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University, China
• Dr Walter Wan Fai Lee, Assistant Professor and Programme Leader for Global and China Studies, School of Arts and Social Sciences, The Open University of Hong Kong
• Professor LI Hong, School of Sociology, Northeast Normal University; Executive Director of Jilin Sociological Association, China
• E. Ambassador Liu Xiaoming, the Chinese Embassy to the UK [tbc]
• Professor Dr Elke Mack, Chair of Department of Christian Social Ethics and Social Sciences, University of Erfurt, Germany
• Dr Maurizio Marinelli, Senior Lecturer in East Asian History, Co-Director Sussex Asia Centre, University of Sussex, UK
• Mr David Meyer, Head of International, Ministry of Justice, UK
• Professor Susan Robertson, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge; Editor in Chief – Globalisation, Societies and Education
• Professor Charles Sampford, Director of the Institute for Ethics, Governance and Law (IEGL), Griffith University, Australia
• Dr Li Sun, Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds; Consultant to UN, World Bank, OECD, and China
• Mr Steve Trent, co-Founder & Executive Director, Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF), UK
• Professor WANG Fan, Vice-President of China Foreign Affairs University; Vice-President of China National Association for International Studies
• Dr WANG Jiangli, Director of UK office of Zhejiang University; former Deputy Director of Department of Political Science in School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University, China
• Professor WANG Tie, former director of Institute of Information Sciences, Wuhan Academy of Social Sciences, China   
• Dr XIAO Hong, Professorial Editor-in-Chief, China Academic Journal (CD) Electronic Publishing House, Director of Chinese Scientific Bibliometrics Research Centre of CNKI, General Manager of International Publishing Centre of CNKI, China
• Dr Maung Zarni, Fellow of the Sleuk Rith Institute (a Permanent Documentation Centre), Cambodia
• Dr ZHANG Xiaodong, General Secretary and Executive Director of the Academic Board of China Management Science Society; ECO of Agile Think Tank, China; Deputy Director of Global China Institute, UK
• Professor ZHU Guanglei, Vice President of Nankai University; Deputy Director of the National Political Science Education Steering Committee, China

Organizing Committee (in alphabetical order):

Chairs  

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

• Professor WANG Wen, Executive Dean, Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China (RDCY), China

General Secretary Mr Philip Hao, CEO, UVIC Group, UK; Vice-General Secretary, Global China Institute

Members

• Professor Martin Albrow FAcSS, Honorary Vice-President of the British Sociological Association (BSA); Honorary President, Global China Institute, UK; Emeritus Professor of the University of Wales, UK 
• Dr Dongning Feng, Senior Lecturer, former Director of the Centre for Translation Studies, SOAS, University of London, UK
• Mr Chris Henson, Membership Secretary, Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding, UK
• Professor Martin Jacques, Senior Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge, UK; Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University, China
• Professor LI Qiang, Dean of Institute of Minsheng Economic Research, Tsinghua University; Honorary President, Global China Institute, UK; former President of Chinese Sociological Association, China    
• Professor Wei Li FAcSS, Chair of Centre for Applied Linguistics, University College London, UK
• Professor LUO Jiaojiang, Dean of Institute of Social Development, Wuhan University, China; Deputy Director of Global China Institute, UK  
• Professor Tony McEnery, FAcSS, FRSA,  Director of Strategy at Trinity College London; former interim Chief Executive and Research Director of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC); Distinguished Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Lancaster University, UK
• Professor ZHANG Letian, Director of the Centre for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Director of Contemporary China Social Life Data and Research Centre (CCSLC), Fudan University, China; and Co-Director of Global China Institute, UK 

Supporters and sponsors: click HERE

Key dates:

• Early Bird online registration (10% off): by 30 September 2018
• Standard online registration: 31 October 2018
• Final programme: 15 November 2018

Languages: English and Chinese

Publications: The Global China Dialogue Series is the only international event in the world which publishes its proceedings in English and Chinese separately, and with a DOI number for each set of speech notes in both editions. Click HERE

Registration fees:

Free: 

• 6 December, participating in Pre-Dialogue event
• 7 December, assisting at the GCD V, without evening Reception
• 8 December, participating in Post-Dialogue event 

UK:

£180: 7 Dec. without evening Reception 

£280: 7 Dec. with evening Reception 

International: In order to attract as wide a participation as possible, the Global China Dialogue Series and related events are arranged in four different venues in London. We offer five- and seven-day packages inclusive of fees and all costs except international flight tickets:

£980: 5–9 December 

£1180: 5–11 December

Contact: Ms Lisa Wilkinson info@gci-uk.org 

Website: http://dialogue.global-china.org/

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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.

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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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The last thirty years have seen a transformation of the Chinese media. They have moved from being solely the “throat and tongue of the party” supported by state subsidies to a situation where the majority of their income is from advertising revenue, for which they must vigorously compete with each other. The need to gain and hold an audience are today central to the concerns of media managers, journalists and creative workers. At the same time, they still need to follow the party line and to carry positive messages about Chinaâ€s development. Many observers have noted how these two tasks impose unique burdens on the media and oblige them to develop new strategies to report the news and to entertain the audience.

The change in the economic situation of the media, and the orientation on the preferences of consumers, has meant that Chinese media producers have had to find new forms of journalism and new kinds of programming that are attractive to the mass audience.

In television, despite the regulatory protection that CCTV still enjoys, it must face sharp competition in markets like Guangdong from provincial and city stations whose programming is much more attuned to local tastes and language. Nationally, provincial satellite channels, notably from Hunan, are in the forefront of innovation in entertainment programming. Similarly, Phoenix TV is introducing new ways of reporting the news and winning a substantial audience, particularly amongst the younger and elite audiences.

In the newspaper press there has been a series of new and innovative titles, which have much more sensational and personalised reporting than the old norms. Some journalists have reported on events and individuals that have had major repercussions for aspects of the legal situation. At the same time there has been an explosion of journalism devoted to different aspects of lifestyle and consumption, aimed squarely at the new middle class audience. In the broader printed press, a new generation of magazines targeting audiences like young women and, more recently, young men, have enjoyed substantial success in terms of circulation.

Social change, and in particular the rise of car ownership, has also led to a revival of radio. The notorious traffic jams of big Chinese cities have created what is literally a captive audience for the medium. So, too, increasing affluence and the spread of the internet has led to an explosion of computer gaming, both offline and online, that is attractive to many young people.

The sources of these new ideas are many and varied. Sometimes, as with TV dramas, there is the straightforward purchase and broadcasting of foreign shows, many originating from Korea, which have proved very popular with audiences. In entertainment programming, there have been notorious cases of unauthorised borrowings from abroad (Supergirl is the most famous example) but today there are more and more entirely legal purchases of foreign formats. In broadcast news, Phoenix uses presentational techniques developed by international broadcasters to deliver the same sort of news as CCTV in a more approachable format. In magazines, the model is one of close collaboration in joint ventures between Chinese publishers and big western publishers that have established Chinese equivalents of many of the most famous global fashion and lifestyle titles. These borrowings, however, are hardly ever simple transfers from one country to another: in almost all cases, Chinese importers modify the original to fit better with the preferences of their audience.

Increasingly, however, Chinese media are seeking to break free from imported models and to produce media content that is wholly original. They are following in the footsteps of producers in other countries who started off with a debt to more advanced media systems but have increasingly generated their own nationally-specific content. Some Chinese media organisations have plans to develop themselves into truly global players, to generate wholly original content, and to export their programmes, ideas and formats to other countries.

These innovations in the media are taking place at the same time as the much more general and very rapid social and cultural changes that are sweeping China. Millions of people flood into the cities from the countryside and millions of urban dwellers have seen their personal wealth and their cultural horizons transformed in the last www.essaywritingplace.com thirty years. Some welcome these cultural changes and celebrate the forms of media that are attractive to this new audience. They welcome the relative freedom and the influence of foreign ideas and values, seeing them as the building blocks of the new China. Others worry that the deluge of novelty threatens the traditional values of Chinese culture and seek to insulate the population from alien cultures. In the film industry, for example, some claim that the price of international success has been the adaptation of traditional Chinese themes and stories to fit western tastes. China will only succeed in exporting cultural products, they argue, if they are stripped of their unique Chinese characteristics.

We invite papers that look at any aspect of this complex process of change. Our interests include, but are not limited to:

• Joint deals between Chinese and overseas media companies
• Intellectual property rights and the Chinese media
• Adapting foreign models to Chinese conditions
• Originating wholly Chinese media artefacts
• Managing the process of change, creativity and innovation in the Chinese media
• Planning entry into the global market
• The nature of cultural change in contemporary China
• New freedoms and new constraints for Chinese media producers
• Chinese media and foreign capital

Send abstracts (250 words maximum) by 1st February to Guo Dawei: georgedawei@hotmail.com

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