creative connexions

From January to June 2008, China Now is organising the biggest festival of China ever to take place in the UK. The festival will feature more than 800 events showcasing the best of Chinese art, design, lifestyle, business, technology, education and sport. In June, Creative Connexions, in association with China Now and School of Oriental and African studies (SOAS) will proudly present one of the highlights: China Media Festival.

It will focus on Chinese media as well as media representation of China in the UK. It aims to encourage the exchanges and direct dialogue between China and UK media professionals, covering television, newspaper, radio and internet. We hope that the festival will lead to some real understanding and collaborations between the two countries.

Enquiries: Dr Wang Tao (Centre Chair) wt@soas.ac.uk or Rahima Begum rb41@soas.ac.uk

Provisional Programme

Day 1 – 18 June, 2008

Workshop: One day showcase of some highlights of UK and Chinese television programmes on various aspects of China

Chairs: Hu Zhengrong, Huang Yong, Wang Tao

10am: Registration

10:30-12:30am: Session One: Chinese TV and film

Lunch break

2:00-3:00pm: Session Two: Chinese TV and film

Tea break

3:30-5:30pm: Session Three: UK TV documentaries on China

Day 2 – 19 June, 2008

Conference: Individual papers on Chinese media as well as media representation of China in the UK.

It aims to encourage the exchanges and direct dialogue between China and UK media professionals, covering television, newspaper, radio and internet. We hope that the festival will lead to some real understanding and collaborations between the two countries.

9: 30am: Registration

Chair: Hugo de Burgh 

10:00-10:30: Hu Zhengrong: Media communication in China

10:30-11:00: Huang Yong: Broadcasting in China

11:00-11:30: Wen Jin: Internet in China

Tea break

12:00-12:30: Isabel Hilton: Building ‘China Dialogue’

12:30-1:00: Becky Hogge: Making an internet dialogue: a technical view

Lunch break

Chair: John Gittings 

2:00-2:30: Sajid Rezvi: Foreign media on China: a global view

2:30-3:00: Helen Wang: Exhibition of Mao badges: history and challenges

3:00-3:30: Cassian Harrison: Making social and historical documentaries on China

Tea break

4:00-4:30: Brian Leith: Making documentaries on China’s wild life

4:30-5:00: Jonathan Himoff: Chinese museums in the virtual world

Roundtable Discussion: The discussion aims to encourage the direct exchanges between China and UK media professionals, covering television, newspaper, radio and internet, in the hope that the discussion will lead to some real understanding and collaborations between the two UK and China.

5:00-6:30: Chair: Wang Tao

Hu Zhengrong, Huang Yong, Wen Jin, Isabel Hilton, Becky Hogge, John Gittings, Hugo de Burgh, Kevin Latham, Sajid Rezvi, Helen Wang, Cassian Harrison, Brian Lieth, Jonathan Himoff, Stephen Byrne, Zhang Lifen

6:45-8:45pm: Reception

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