Researchers at the China Media
Centre
Professor Hugo de Burgh
Professor of Journalism.
Director of China Media Centre
Email:
cmc@wmin.ac.uk
Tel: 020 7911 5000 ext. 4079
Professor de Burgh is currently working on PRC media and
cultural projects.
Recent Publications:
Hugo de Burgh (2005) (ed.) Making Journalists: diverse models,
global issues. London: Routledge.
Hugo de Burgh (2005) (ed.) China and Britain: the potential
impact of China's developments. London: the Smith Institute
Hugo de Burgh (2003) The Chinese Journalist: mediating
information in the world's most populous country. London:
RoutledgeCurzon
Professor Colin Sparks
Professor of Media Studies
Director of Communication and Media Research Institute.
Email:
sparksc@wmin.ac.uk
Tel: 020 7911 5000 ext. 7380
Professor Sparks has published extensive volumes of
international journal articles, book chapters and books. His
current research interests are the impact of technological change
on the media industries, and the consequent implications for public
information and the public sphere.
Recent Publications:
Andrew Calabrese and Colin Sparks (2004) (eds.) Toward a
Political Economy of Culture: capitalism and Communication in the
twenty-first century. Oxford : Rowman & Littlefield.
Colin Sparks and John Tulloch (2000) (eds.) Tabloid Tales:
global debates over media standards. Oxford: Rowman &
Littlefield.
Colin Sparks with Anna Reading (1998) Communism, capitalism
and the mass media. London : Sage
Slavko Splichal and Colin Sparks. (1994) Journalists for the
21st century : tendencies of professionalization among first-year
students in 22 countries. Norwood, N.J. : Ablex.
Professor Harriet Evans
Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies
Email:
evansh@wmin.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 7911 5000 x 7603
Fax: +44 (0)20 7911 5164
Professor Evans was educated at the University of
London's School of African and Oriental Studies, the University of
British Colombia, the Beijing Languages Institute, and Beijing
University. She taught modern Chinese history in Mexico between
1979 and 1984. Formerly Head of the University of Westminster's
Chinese Section, she is now co-ordinator of the MA and MPhil/PhD
programmes in Contemporary Chinese Cultural Studies and
International Studies. Her publications include Women and Sexuality
in China: Discourses of Female Sexuality and Gender since 1949
(1997), and Picturing Power in the People's Republic of China:
Posters of the Cultural Revolution (co-edited with Stephanie
Donald, 1999). She has contributed many articles to leading
journals and edited volumes. Her current research includes a
project on mothers, daughters, and gendered subjectivities in
China; sexuality and reproductive health in China; and political
posters and visual culture in the People's Republic of China
Mr. Kim Gordon
Senior Lecture in Media management and broadcast journalism.
Spending his childhood in Beijing, China, he is versed in Chinese.
Currently, Kim Gordon is in charge of a contract known as the HUNAN
PROJECT, which is a 3-month course in Media Management for young
journalists coming from China. He has been undertaking this
course for the past five year and founded the China Media
Initiative.
Mr. Kim is former BBC News and current affairs
producer/director, he writes extensively on media and
communications in China. Areas of expertise: media and
communications in China; media management
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Dr. Yik Chan Chin
Dr. Chin recently completed her PhD on Chinese broadcasting
policies and industrial transition between 1996 to 2003, currently
researching on media policies and regulations in UK. Her main
research interests include media and cultural policy and regulation
in China; globalisation and modernity.
Publications:
(2004) Integration into Global Capitalism or Modernisation
with Chinese Characteristics?: The shifting patterns of China's
television sector and ideological debates amid the WTO entry,
Journalism and Communication Studies Review, 2003 Annual Edition.
(in Chinese)
(2003) "the Nation-state in a Globalizing Media Environment:
China's regulatory policies on transborder TV drama flow".
Javnost/The Public, Vol.10, 4, 75-94.
(2003) "China's Regulatory Policies on Transnational Drama
Flow". Media Development, 3/2003, 17-22.
Dr. Xin Xin
Research Fellow
Office: F block, China Media Centre, Harrow Campus, University
of Westminster
Tel: 0044-20-79115000 ext 4604
Dr. Xin Xin, RCUK research fellow, is currently researching
Chinese journalism and its relationship to the wider world while
teaching MA students in International Journalism at Westminster.
The first phase of her postdoctoral research examines the
international expansion of a number of influential news
organizations in China, including CCTV,
China Daily, China
News Service, China Radio International, Dragon TV and Xinhua News
Agency, and its impact upon journalistic practices. She worked as a
journalist for many years in China and spent a year as a visiting
scholar in Moscow before starting her PhD research on Xinhua News
Agency at Westminster in 2003. She finished her PhD in 2006. Her
works were published in leading academic journals, such as
Media, Culture & Society (2006), and the
book
Communications Media, Globalization and Empire, edited by
Oliver Boyd-Barrett (2006, John Libbey). She is a member of the
editorial board of the journal
Westminster Papers in
Communication and Culture (WPCC) and the editor of the issue
Media in China (http://www.wmin.ac.uk/mad/page-1303).
Her research interests include: Chinese journalism, media and
globalization in non-Western contexts, news organizations, news
flows and comparative media studies.
Dr. Xin is Advisor for Westminster PhD students who are
interested in Chinese media for discussing ideas for publication in
academic journals. She is available on Monday, between 11:30 and
13:30. Meetings can be arranged by appointments.
Ms. Lucy Montgomery
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Telephone: 0044 20 79115000 ext 4748
Lucy Montgomery joined the China Media Centre in October
2006. She has recently completed her PhD on the
role of Copyright in the development of China’s domestic film and
music industries. Her research interests include: China and
the Olymics; Copyright in film and music; China’s domestic media
and creative industries;
Publications:
Montgomery Lucy & Michael Keane (2006), ‘Shadow markets: the
role of copyright in China’s film and television industries -
fantasy or reality?’ Communications, Intellectual Property and the
Public Domain in the Asia-Pacific Region: Contestations and
Consensus, eds. Servaes & Thomas, Sage.
Montgomery, Lucy (2006) ‘Beijing Bling: Creative Details and
Consumer Choices in Contemporary China. An Interview with Huang
Hung’ International Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol.9, No.3,
pp.369-376.
Montgomery, Lucy and Brian Fitzgerald (2006) ‘Copyright and the
Creative Industries in China’ International Journal of Cultural
Studies, Vol.9, No.3, pp. 407-418.
Montgomery,
Lucy (2005) Fanchong, [Digital
Story]
Dr. Cao Qing
Research Associate of China Media Centre and Senior Lecturer
and Programme Leader in Chinese Studies at Liverpool John Moores
University.
Email:
q.cao@livjm.ac.uk
Tel: 0151 231 3388
Dr. Cao's main research areas cover British/Western media
representation of China and the Chinese mass media. His research
has been published in international journals and with
RoutledgeCurzon, Palgrave and University of Hong Kong Press.
Currently he is working on a project the role of the media in
mediating political and cultural changes in contemporary China
supported by a British Academy research grant. He serves on the
editorial board of the journal China Media Research, and is a
council member of the British Association for Chinese
Studies.
Mr. Xing Peiyu
Visiting Fellow at China Media Centre
Editor of Journal of Chinese Journalist
MA, Renming University, Beijing
Email: xing.py@gmail.com
Mr. Xing has six years experience in journalism and has
written many
features about China media market for his journal. He is currently
researching on the economics of media industry.
Ms. Li Liying
Visiting Fellow at China Media Center
Lecturer in Renmin University of China
Ms. Li is currently researching young Chinese's reception
and consumption of English
media products.
Ms. Li Shubo
PhD Candidate, researching on Chinese online public spaces.
Her research interests include history, architecture and future of
online communities in China, network theory, virtual society and
information society, media and politics in China
Ms. Zeng Rong
PhD Candidate, comparing the commonalities and differences
between British and Chinese television newsrooms. Formerly worked
at CCTV, gained an MA at LSE and was a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge
University.
Ms. Tong Jingrong
PhD Candidate at China
Media Centre, researching on Journalistic professionalism. Ms.
Tong's research interests include media sociology, journalist
professionalism; Chinese media and society; and discourse studies
and media representation.
Email:
j.tong05@wmin.ac.uk
Ms. Lee Hsiaowen
PhD Student,
researching on the press journalism in China. Her research
interests include journalistic professionalism, press
tabloidisation and media economics.
Email:
hsiaowen@alumni.nccu.edu.tw
Ms. Li Shuang
PhD Student, researching on consumer magazines with foreign
investments. Her research interests include media business and
practice, social and culture trend, political communications.Ms. Li
was a journalist in Beijing for 13 years, and worked in broadsheet,
tabloid, weekly magazine, advertising agency company and publishing
house.
Ms. Chen Laichi
PhD Student, researching on Asian online game industry,
specifically focusing on big China area including Mainland China
and Taiwan.
Email:
Laichi.chen@gmail.com
Mr. Cao Jie
Part-time PhD Student researching the relationship between
Chinese Government Media Handling and Chinese language broadcasts
outside China. He is a reporter for Phoenix TV News in
London.
Mr. Guo Dawei
PhD Student, compiling China Media Centre Briefings for staff
and students. He is currently researching the reception of
historical drama on Chinese TV.
Email:
georgedawei@hotmail.com
Ms. Yuan Yan
PhD Student currently researching urban-rural communication
and community/alternative media in China.