Mediating Transnational East Asian Masculinities

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Mediating Transnational East Asian Masculinities
One-day Symposium funded by the British Academy

Date: 7 May 2015
Address: RS Boardroom, University of Westminster,
309 Regent Street London W1B 2HW

Convenors: Derek Hird (University of Westminster) and Geng Song (University of Hong Kong)

Co-hosted by the China Media Centre and compra levitra 40mg the Contemporary China Centre at The University of Westminster, London

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East Asian men are becoming increasingly visible in mediated forms around the world, in films, and broadcast, print, online and social media. East Asian countries’ growing participation in translocal and kamagra nouveau prix global circulations of people, images, ideas, goods and finance have resulted in East Asian masculinities assuming more important roles in imaginaries of masculinities. This symposium will explore media depictions of East Asian masculinities in transnational perspective, to better illuminate the ways in which they reveal the effects of transnational sociocultural, political and economic trends and transformations, and how they influence perspectives and practices of masculinities in local and global contexts. Read more

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China Media Centre 2015 Winter Seminar–A JOURNEY TO THE WEST

China Media Centre 2015 Winter Seminar

A JOURNEY TO THE WEST

Speaker: Mr Shirong Chen

Date: Wednesday 14th January 2015

Time: 1:30pm – 3:30 pm

Venue: A7.1, Harrow Campus

Chair: Professor Hugo de Burgh

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A visiting scholar from China embarked on a year-long personal journey to England to learn new education technologies that he intended to take back with him. He ended up working for more than a decade as a journalist/editor for the BBC, one of the biggest and most influential media organisations in the world. Now he has turned his energy to China Report, a news magazine he publishes in conjunction with China News Service, one of the two main news agencies in China. The magazine is dedicated to promoting understanding between China and Western Europe. Shirong Chen’s personal journey takes place against the backdrop of a changing and increasingly powerful China, He started his journey almost like Wukong in the legendary Story of the Monkey, overcoming many tests and challenges to get to China’s west for the original Buddhist Sutras. But the journey has turned out to be a lasting quest for journalistic wisdom and skills to stay ahead of the new media wave.

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CMC Case Study: Mentoring the creative process for Chinese TV

Shanghai Media Group, a leading Chinese communications corporation, sent a delegation of 15 young TV producers and directors to us to learn more about the creative process. Under our guidance they developed four potential programme formats. One proved to be a big weekend entertainment hit, generating enormous advertising revenue for SMG.

The challenge

SMG photoIn the past, programme development in China was haphazard: there was no system, no structure and levitra generika rezeptfrei online kaufen no established process to develop an idea into a programme, much less maximise the success of a new format. Shanghai Media Group (SMG) had heard about UK producers and understood that development “turning an idea into a format“ was an established practice in the UK. SMG wanted to learn the techniques to control and shape an idea to highlight its strengths, eliminate flaws and maximise the creativity of the team developing the idea.

They tasked the China Media Centre (CMC) with creating a mentoring course that offered both a strategic outlook and practical production techniques, but above all one that taught the members how to develop successful ideas. Read more

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China Media Centre 2014 Winter Seminar

SOCIAL MEDIA AND CHINA IN THE PAST DECADE

Speaker: Dr David Feng

Date: Wednesday, 05 November 2014

Time: 14:00 – 16:00

Venue: A6.08, Harrow Campus

Chair:Dr Paul Dwyer

OPEN TO ALL

D Feng photoThis talk covers China’s social media development over the past decade in general, and in the past few years in particular.  Dr Feng has long been actively involved with social media in China: his presentation combines personal experience and the reasons behind the phenomenon with a more inter-disciplinary approach. The talk examines the blogging community in China as well as the use of Twitter, Facebook, WeChat and Weibo there and the attitudes to social media of the administrations of Hu Jintao and billige propecia ohne rezept Xi Jinping.  It also covers key “social mediated” events including the CCTV headquarters fire, the Wenzhou high-speed rail crash and the rise and fall of “big Vs” (prominent social media users with verified accounts). It further discusses what might be next for social media in a country in which the idea of the government being mere keystrokes away was alien just a few years ago.

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约记者 何思佳

“批评政府是一种媒体职责”

——专访英国FT驻京记者James Kynge

James Kynge,英国《金融时报》(Financial Times)驻北京记者。他在其所著的《中国震撼世界》(China Shakes the World: A Titan’s Rise and Troubled Future – and the Challenge for America)一书中介绍了中国作为一个超级大国的发展历程。该书已被翻译成19种语言,赢得了2006年《金融时报》和高盛商业图书年度奖。James Kynge已报道中国二十余年,获得过数项新闻奖项,他现担任NPR,CNNå’ŒBBC等媒体对中国和亚洲问题的评论员。 Read more

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