A major volume on press history, entitled 《報人報國：中國新聞史的另一種讀法》(To Serve the Nation: Journalists as Prisms of Chinese Press History), has been published by the Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. Edited by Professor Lee Chin-Chuan, this volume marks a sequel to its critically acclaimed predecessor, 《文人論政：知識份子與報刊》 （廣西師大出版社，2008；政大出版社，2008） Both volumes have grown out of conferences organized
Professor Lee Chin-Chuan is appointed to chair the Best Article Award Committee of the International Communication Association. Other committee members include Prof. Daniel O'Keefe (Northwestern University), Prof. Philip Howard (University of Washington), and Prof. Pieter Maeseele (University of Antwerp, Belgium). Based on the committee's nomination, the ICA president will present an award to
Qin Jie, a third-year PhD student funded by the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme, has published her third Chinese translation of Cultural Studies: The Basics, originally authored by Jeff Lewis in 2008. The translated version, coauthored with Guo Zhenzhi, is published by Tsinghua University Press. The book is part of the Series of Translated
Documentary series “Our Fathers’ Revolution” produced by COM students (2012) will be aired on SUN TV from 9 to 10 January 2013. You can watch this documentary from www.iSuntv.com according to the program schedule. It will be re-broadcast on the next day at 5 am, 11 am and 5 pm accordingly. “Our Fathers’ Revolution” documentary series includes 11 short films. COM
The Department of Media and Communication has announced that 17 young scholars from the Mainland and 1 from Taiwan will be invited to take residence, adding to the list of 113 “alumni” who have previously participated in the program. They will come to the Department in two batches during Semester B, each for a
