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New Book: 2nd Edition of “China’s Media in the Emerging World Order”

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Published by the University of Buckingham Press, China’s Media in the Emerging World is the latest work by the CMC’s director, Professor Hugo de Burgh. It is available for purchase here.

China is challenging the mighty behemoths, Google and comprar kamagra sin receta Facebook, and creating alternative New Media; 750 million people are on its Social Mediascape and there are a billion mobile phones deploying the innovative apps with which Chinese conduct their lives. Though late starters, already four of the world’s leading New Media companies are Chinese.

China’s old media − television, newspapers, radio − compete with the established powers, long thought unassailable, such as CNN and BBC. Produced in many languages on every continent, they are re-defining the agenda and telling the story China’s way. News and documentary are being followed by entertainment. The world’s biggest manufacturer of TV drama is now making its stories for export. China’s Media tells you why and how; it investigates the Chinese media, their strengths and weaknesses, and how they are different. Abjuring the customary casual writing off of China’s media as ‘propaganda’, this book takes them seriously.

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WEBINAR ON HK AND WOLF WARRIOR DIPLOMACY

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Tim Summers, formerly UK Consul General in Chongqing, took part in the first GRANDVIEW-CMC WEB DIALOGUE IN UK-CHINA RELATIONS on 3rd  July 2020. 

Grandview is an important Chinese think tank which has held webinars with Chatham House and leading US think tanks.

The Grandview-CMC webinar was to examine the effects on UK-China relations of recent developments in Hong Kong and cialis california online of the so-called ‘Wolf Warrior’ approach to communications adopted by some Chinese diplomats and official spokespersons.

Those taking part were

Capt. (retd) Tian Shichen (田士臣), in the chair. Mr Tian is  Vice President of Grandview Institution and was previously an officer on the PLA General Staff. He is an alumnus of CMC and of University of Nottingham.

Dr. Tim Summers, Senior Consulting Fellow on the Asia-Pacific Programme at Chatham House and Lecturer at the Centre for China Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (香港中文大学) 

Prof. Hugo de Burgh （戴雨果）, Director of the China Media Centre, University of Westminster. 

Professor Huang Jingtian （黄靖田）, Chief Strategist and Vice Chairman of the Academic Committee at Grandview, Professor and Dean (Academic Affairs) of the Institute of International and Regional Studies, Beijing Language and Culture University. 

Professor Yang Yujun （杨宇军）, Dean of the Academy of Media and comprar kamagra en venlo Public Affairs, Communication University of China, Formerly Chief Spokesperson of the PRC Ministry of Defence 

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Professor Hugo de Burgh awarded a Gresham College Lectureship

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Professor Hugo de Burgh, Professor of Journalism and Director of the China Media Centre, has been awarded a Lectureship from Gresham College.

A specialist in China’s media. Hugo de Burgh established the China Media Centre at the University of Westminster in 2005. He has advised many people in UK public life, from Gordon Brown (for whom CMC organised a series of seminars on China in Downing Street) to Boris Johnson whom he accompanied on his first visit to China. His most recent book is China’s Media in the Emerging World Order (2020).

The title of his forthcoming Gresham Lecture is China through its Media.

Bill Bryson delivering a Gresham College lecture.

Gresham College has provided free public lectures since 1597, making it London’s oldest higher education institution. It offers lectures and a number of events in art, architecture, literature, business, history, IT, law, mathematics, science, music and religion. Past lecturers have included Joan Bakewell, Mary Beard, Lord Desai, Helena Kennedy, Alan Rusbridger. Forthcoming lecturers include Yorick Wilks (Artificial Intelligence, Oxford)  and Chris Whitty (Chief Scientific Adviser). More information: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/about/

See also: https://www.westminster.ac.uk/news/professor-hugo-de-burgh-awarded-a-gresham-college-lectureship

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UCL Discussion

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On 28 January 2020 Professor Hugo de Burgh and Professor Iwan Morgan spoke at the UCL European Horizons Society’s discussion of “Who is the biggest threat to the liberal international order: USA, China or Russia?”

In the photograph Professors Iwan Morgan and Hugo de Burgh with the President and Secretary of the UCL European Horizons Society.

The long-standing international rule-based liberal order has come under unprecedented threat in recent years. Threatened not only by Russian interference or undermined by China’s ascendancy to economic dominance but also by American populism in the shape of the current president.

The liberal international order is widely understood as the institutions and rules adopted by nation states belonging to the order to ultimately promote and defend democracy. But who among these represents the biggest threat to it?

The purpose of the event was to analyse the actions being taken by the USA, China and Russia to undermine key elements of the current order and how this threatens global stability.

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Nick Ross gives lecture to Chinese media operatives

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Nick Ross, one of the U.K.’s leading broadcasters, gave a lecture to Chinese media operatives undertaking a course in the China media centre today.

Nick Ross has been one of the most ubiquitous British broadcasters and his best known for hosting the BBC television show Crimewatch for 23 years. He has made many documentaries and major series for both television and radio. He is chairman, president, trustee or patron of a large number of charities.

In his talk to the Chinese broadcasters, who included Yu Jianfeng, Director of the Tianjin Jinyun New Media Group, and Zhang Chenxiao, Deputy Director of the Internet Department of the The National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA), he discussed his experience of reporting in Northern Ireland as having relevance to Chinese media reporting controversial and critical situations in China. He talked about the origins of our relatively free media but also of the limitations of that freedom in self censorship and BBC ideology. He said that we need a middle way between the British media’s determination to ferment controversy and the Chinese media’s damping down of controversy. He believes that while China over regulates its media and particularly social media, the UK has been discovering, as it grapples with pornography, poisonous ideologies and terrorism on social media that it has under regulated social media and has now to try to retrofit controls.

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