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REPORTING ON BRITAIN FOR READERS IN CHINA

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China Media Centre 2014 Winter Seminar

REPORTING ON BRITAIN FOR READERS IN CHINA

Speaker: Ms LI Wenyun

Date: Wednesday 19th February 2014

Time: 2-4pm

Venue: A1.04

Chair: Professor Hugo de Burgh

OPEN TO ALL

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LI Wenyun is coming to the end of her posting as the UK bureau chief of the People’s Daily.  The People’s Daily is China’s leading newspaper of record, the leading Party newspaper which has been going through enormous changes in recent years. It now has a very successful online edition, Renminwang, and many other spin offs.

She has been reporting for the newspaper in London for the past three years, but has worked for the People’s Daily for more than thirty years, having joined its International News Department in 1976.  She was previously the paper’s India bureau chief in Delhi (1998-2001) and the Western USA bureau chief in Los Angeles (2003-2007).

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THE HIGHS AND LOWS OF REPORTING FROM CHINA

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China Media Centre 2013 Autumn Seminar

Speaker: Michael Bristow

Date: Wednesday 20th November

Time: 2-4pm

Venue: A1.06

Chair: Professor Hugo de Burgh

OPEN TO ALL

The highs and lows of reporting from China – Michael Bristow talks about his time in Beijing as a journalist for the BBC and the China Daily.

Michael Bristow has been a journalist for 20 years, starting out as a newspaper reporter and then moving into broadcasting. He’s reported from Taiwan and more recently from China. He left Beijing last year after spending five years there as a correspondent for the BBC, appearing on TV and radio and writing for the news website.

He had previously worked for the China Daily on two separate occasions totalling two years.  Michael now works in the new BBC headquarters in London as a regional editor – for East Asia and the Pacific – on the World Service.

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Communicating Soft Power: Contrasting Perspectives from India and China

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Date:
9 September 2013 -10 September 2013
Time: 9.00am – 7.00pm

Organized by the India Media Centre and the China Media Centre of the Communication and comprar sildenafil sin receta Media Research Institute (CAMRI) of the University of Westminster, London

The notion of soft power, associated with the work of Harvard political scientist Joseph Nye, is defined as ‘the ability to attract people to our side without coercion’. Nye’s concept, whose focus is primarily on the United States, has been adopted or adapted by countries around the world. It has generated much debate about the capacity of nations to make themselves attractive in a globalizing marketplace for ideas and images.

This two-day international conference will explore competing and contrasting approaches to soft power in India and China, the world’s two fastest growing economies whose rise is set to reconfigure global power equations in a multi-polar world. The conference will discuss the American origins of the concept and how it has been extrapolated in non-American contexts, namely in India and China. Contributors to the conference will examine whether soft power needs to be de-Americanized and expanded to be more inclusive, and historicised to take account of the role of countries and civilizations, such as India and China, in the global communication sphere. India’s global cultural presence is primarily driven by its privately-owned creative and cultural industries – it is home to the world’s largest film industry, as well as a hub for the global IT industry. In the case of China, the state has taken the commanding role in promoting the country’s soft power to supplement its hard economic prowess, as the world’s second largest economy. This is evident in the Chinese government’s extensive investment in international broadcasting as well as in setting up Confucius Institutes around the globe.

The University of Westminster, which hosts the highest-ranked research department in media and commander cialis par facture communication in the UK, is home to specialist media research facilities in the China Media and India Media Centres. This pioneering attempt to discuss Asian soft power in a comparative framework will provide an opportunity to examine the strengths and limitations of the idea of soft power, deploying a multi-perspectival approach. Read more →

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CHINA’S SOFT POWER AND ITS MEDIA EXPANSION IN AFRICA

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China Media Centre 2013 Autumn Seminar

Speaker: Dr Iginio Gagliardone

Date: Wednesday 13th November

Time: 2-4pm

Venue: A7.01

Chair: Professor Hugo de Burgh

OPEN TO ALL

Dr Iginio Gagliardone is British Academy Research Fellow and a member of the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at the University of Oxford. His research and publications focus on media and political change, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, and on the emergence of distinctive models of the information society around the globe. His current research projects explore the role of emerging powers such as China in promoting alternative conceptions of the Internet in Africa and how Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are supporting (or challenging) processes of state and nation building in Eastern Africa. He completed his PhD at the London School of Economics and Political Science, investigating the relationship between development and destabilization in Ethiopia. He is also Research Associate of the Centre of Governance and Human Rights at the University of Cambridge and of the Centre for Global Communication Studies (CGCS), Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania.

If you have any inquiry about CMC events, please contact Alja Kranjec at A.Kranjec@westminster.ac.uk

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China Media Centre 2013 Spring Seminar

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China Media Centre 2013 Spring Seminar

WATCHDOG JOURNALISM SINCE 2001

新世纪以来的舆论监督

Speaker: Professor Zhan Jiang 著名新闻学者 展江教授

Chair: Professor Hugo de Burgh

Date: Monday 18th March 2013

Time: 2pm-4pm

Venue: A1.4, Harrow Campus, University of Westminster

 

Abstract

Professor Zhan Jiang will examine the situation of China’s watchdog journalism since 2001 by illustrating seven stages and three forms of ‘watchdog journalism’ (also known as ‘supervision by public opinion’). In this seminar Professor Zhan will take questions from the audience and shares his views on media issues.   

 

Professor Zhan Jiang is a very well-known media reformer and is frequently quoted in the Western media. He is now Professor of journalism in the Department of International Journalism and Communication, Beijing Foreign Studies University, and the former Dean of the School of Journalism and Communication, China Youth University for Political Sciences. He was a reporter and weekend edition editor of the Yangzhou Daily News from 1976 to 1985 and has written more than 50 papers on journalism and several books, including Theories of War-time Journalism, Journalism and Courage, and Watchdog Journalism and Global Democracy. Presently, his areas of research include the U.S. media industry and wartime journalism.

展江教授现为北京外国语大学国际新闻与传播系教授，主要研究方向为美国新闻媒介运作机制和战时新闻传播事业。曾在在海军部队服役9年，从事记者工作8年，曾在中国青年政治学院新闻与传播系任教。

 

More about China Media Centre and seminars please see https://chinamediacentre.org. If you have any queries about CMC events, please contact Hong Li at hong.li@my.westminster.ac.uk.

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