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Professor Hugo de Burgh recently gave short podcast interviews for the Foundation for Science and Technology. In this podcast, they discuss the China media centre, media and journalism in China, as well as collaboration between the UK and China. Here is the link to listen:

The Foundation for Science and Technology is a UK charity, providing an impartial platform for debate of policy issues that have a science, research, technology or innovation element. Established in 1977, the Foundation brings together Parliamentarians, civil servants, industrialists, researchers, learned societies, charities and others. It convenes discussion events and round tables, publishes a journal three times per year and regular blogs, and hosts a weekly podcast. It also organises the Foundation Future Leaders Programme, supporting the next generation of professionals from universities, industry and the civil service. In addition, the Foundation provides guidance on governance issues to Professional and Learned Societies.

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Zhejiang is a culturally rich province and Hangzhou, a former capital of China, an important centre of creativity and バイアグラをオンラインで購入する innovation. Screen talents from Zhejiang want to understand how they can plunge into the international market. They need both to develop stories and characters that could be successful in Anglophone and Chinese markets and understand the international platforms’ commissioning and distribution systems better. They want more opportunities to work directly with UK writers and producers.

On 26^th March, China Media Centre was invited to make a presentation to the winners of Zhejiang’s 影视青年人才培养新光计划 Screen New Light Project. Screen New Light Project aims to support the local young screen directors, producers, and writers. Prof. de Burgh 戴雨果 and Dr Mi Miao 密淼 delivered 中国愿景中国故事如何吸引西方观众? Visions of China How can Chinese stories engage Western audiences?

They reviewed the political, commercial, and cultural factors behind international co-productions and shared thoughts on how better to tell stories of ordinary peoples’ lives to the world on screen. They identified some existing TV series as appropriate for remaking with Anglophone audiences in mind and price levitra drugs usa examined past co-produced feature films to understand the reasons for their success or failure.

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CMC makes training programmes on China for FCDO

In March 2021, China Media Centre was commissioned to deliver two one-hour educational programmes for The China Capability Programme run by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. The two programmes are designed to improve the understanding of China by civil servants.  Professor Hugo de Burgh, Director of China Media Centre, interviewed 6 different experts on 2 subjects: The Governance of China and China and the International Rules Based Order. The interviews were edited by a former senior BBC news editor into two one-hour long programmes available through the International Academy’s training platform, accessible to civil servants across HMG. 

The FCO (as it then was) was the China Media Centre’s first client when CMC was set up in 2005, commissioning CMC to brief several hundred Chinese media handlers and official spokespersons on the roles of the media and journalism in British society and polity. Commissioned under the Public Diplomacy Challenge Fund, the project was managed by Professor de Burgh and Professor Ivor Gaber, then of Goldsmiths College.

These are the names of those interviewed for the 2020 project:

Dr. Kishore Mahbubani, former Singaporean Ambassador to the UN, Professor Tony Saich of Harvard Kennedy School, Professor Daniel Bell of Shandong University, Professor Jane Duckett of Glasgow University, Dr. Tim Summers of Chatham House and Bonnie Glaser of the Central Institute of Strategic Studies in the US participated in the programmes. 

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