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Recent Guest Appearances

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Engaging with the wider academic community, debating developments in China’s media and pills levitra usa sharing our research experience with business and industry groups are important aspects of work at the CMC.  Below is a list of the most recent events that CMC staff have participated in:

Professor Hugo de Burgh, Director of the CMC:

– Delivered a lecture at the Royal Society of International Affairs (Chatham House) titled: Nine Illusions About Modern China.

– Participated in a debate on ‘The Great Firewall of China’ at the London School of Economics, Chaired by kamagra gold Sheena McDonald.

Kim Gordon, Director of Media Management Development delivered a lecture at the Kings College Asian Studies Series, titled: Chinese Television Programme Making.

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China Media Centre Awards and Appointments

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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 as a Leverhume Visiting Scholar in 2006, has been appointed Deputy Vice Chancellor of China Communications University.

Professor Colin Sparks, Director of CAMRI, has been appointed Honorary Professor at China Communications University. tacmeds

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China Media Centre -inside China's growing media industry

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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 challenge of open access on the puedes comprar viagra en suiza internet?
These are just a few of the issues being explored in the pioneering China Media Centre based at the University of Westminster’s School of Media, Arts and Design, highly regarded both for its teaching and its scholarly research in media and communications.

Leading the centre will be Professors Hugo de Burgh, Colin Sparks and acquista levitra online con una prescrizione Professor Harriet Evans, all of whom have long established expertise in Chinese media and culture.  The centre, which already has a number of doctoral students from mainland China, has just been awarded substantial funding by the University to build upon its excellent links with Chinese universities and media institutions, with new courses, academic exchanges and research essaywritingplace.com projects.

The Centre will be launched later this year with a series of conferences designed to offer its expertise to government, businesses and NGOs keen to build links with China and to gain more understanding of its culture and ethos through the agency of its media.

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Hugo de Burgh: New China Journalism Not Just a Mouthpiece

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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 about a much more complex role than many realise.  Click Here to listen to the program via downloadable podcast.

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