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China’s international relations and 50mg vardenafil for sale economic strategies: Perceptions of the UK and china

October 31, 2018November 1, 2018CMC

Leading UK specialists on China and senior Chinese officials recently met to discuss China’s international relations and economic strategies during a roundtable focusing on the perceptions of the UK and China. Organised by the CMC, the event took place on Friday 26 October in the Fyvie Hall at the University of Westminster’s Regent Street campus.

Chaired by a former MP, the roundtable consisted of British and Chinese panelists. Among the UK panel were Chen Shirong (Foremost 4 Media), Rod Wye (Chatham House), Dr Linda Yueh (University of Oxford; London Business School; LSE IDEAS research centre), Huw Jenkins (Clifford Chance), and Matthew Rous (Chief Executive of the China-Britain Business Council). The Chinese panel was composed of Tan Xiaojian (谭小建）, Ning Qiwen（宁启文）, Huang Caiyi（黄采艺）, Tang Huadong（唐华东）, Xu Chaofeng（徐朝锋）, all senior officials of what is often now considered to be the most powerful department of state, the Publicity Department. They were part of a delegation of more than twenty officials that arrived in London earlier this month to participate in an advanced training course focusing on Governance, Media Handling and International Communications, with particular focus on UK politics and media.

Roundtable at Fyvie Hall, University of Westminster.

Sally Osman, Director of Royal Communications, lecturing senior Chinese officials in October 2018. Before taking up her post at Buckingham Palace, Sally Osman was a Course Leader for CMC.

The China Media Centre organises many Briefings and also professional development courses for media editors and producers. The last three round tables took place at Oxford University China Centre, Cambridge University Needham Centre and zithromax a vendre King’s College London.

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China Media Centre 2018 Autumn Seminar: Is the media right to be shocked by social credit?

September 6, 2018December 29, 2020CMC

Speaker: Duncan Bartlett

Date: Wednesday, 3 October 2018

Time: 14:00 – 16:00

Venue: A1.09

Chair: Professor Chang Xiangqun

OPEN TO ALL

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Abstract: China’s social credit system has provoked a great deal of horror in the international media. There have been numerous reports complaining that by keeping close track on its citizens using big data, China is using a ‘Big Brother’ form of coercion and control. Many foreign journalists have suggested it is a dystopian human rights violation. Is this is a fair assessments of the social credit system? What does the Chinese government see as its goals and is there much resistance among ordinary citizens? In this presentation, the Editor of Asian Affairs Duncan Bartlett will provide an overview of social credit and examine how it has been perceived in the Chinese and foreign media.

Event: “Mother of Collaborations”

June 3, 2018April 14, 2021CMC

“The Mother of Collaborations”, an event exploring successful collaborations between UK and Chinese development and production teams, was jointly organised by China Central Television and the China Media Centre and took place on 31 May at the University of Westminster’s Regent Street Campus. Hosted by Professor Hugo de Burgh, panel guests included Yu Lei, Executive Producer of ‘The Nation’s Greatest Treasures’ (CCTV); Richard Dale, Film Producer ‘Earth: One Amazing Day’ (BBC/SMG) and Anne Cornell, International Producer ‘The Batchelor’ (Warner Bros) and others.

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China Media Centre presents CCTV productions at the British Museum

June 1, 2018December 29, 2020CMC

The University of Westminster’s China Media Centre hosts two conferences in partnership with China Central Television (CCTV) celebrating successful collaborations between UK and Chinese television teams.

The first, entitled ‘A Wealth of Treasures and Stories’ was held on Tuesday 29 May at the British Museum’s Stevenson Theatre. 150 professionals from the British media and arts world attended the event.

The seminar, hosted by writer, broadcaster and former UK Minister of Culture, Gyles Brandreth, celebrated the immense popular success of the reality show ‘The Nation’s Greatest Treasures’, a ten-part series that uses a complex variety-show format to look at treasures in nine Chinese museums. The show was developed on one of the University of Westminster’s China Media Centre’s ‘TV Innovation and Development’ courses. ‘The Nation’s Greatest Treasures’ has since been transmitted in China to enormous success, with 1.7bn hits online increasing museum attendances by 50 per cent.

On Thursday 31 May, Professor Hugo de Burgh also chaired a panel discussion, in Fyvie Hall at the Regent Street Campus, which looked closely at how to deliver successful collaborations between UK and Chinese production teams.

The panel guests included Yu Lei, Executive Producer of ‘The Nation’s Greatest Treasures’ (CCTV), Richard Dale, Film Producer ‘Earth: One Amazing Day’ (BBC/SMG), Anne Cornell, International Producer ‘The Bachelor’ (Warner Bros) and more.

The China Media Centre is the European specialist on the world’s largest media system, it organises professional exchanges and briefings at which visiting practitioners and students attend three to twelve-week courses to develop television and media concepts.

Since 2011, the China Media Centre has become the model for professional development in the international screen media industry. Every year, participants return home to China with treatments that have been developed into successful programmes. The most famous are transmissions by CCTV including Mission AI, Amazing Legends and The Nation’s Greatest Treasures; and by Shanghai Media Group with King of Comedy, Top Dog and Junior Edison.

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China’s media event at RUSI

March 3, 2018April 14, 2021CMC

Professors Hugo de Burgh and Daya Kishan Thussu from the China Media Centre and the Communication and Media Research Institute, (University of Westminster) will deliver a presentation on the domestic and international implications of the expansion of Chinese media and communications on the global media landscape at The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) on 10 April 2018. Both speakers will be on hand to sign copies of their latest books entitled China’s Media in the Emerging World Order (University of Buckingham Press: 2017) and China’s Media Go Global (Routledge: 2018) which will be on sale. Book your place here!