“What an intellectual feast,” Prof. Yong Zhang Volz from the University of Missouri said that she just attended a conference with the best-quality papers which were presented with seriousness of purpose. She was referring to the conference on the history of press freedom in modern China held 4-5 December 2009 under the auspices of the
For some historians, press control in China before and after 1949 represented more historical continuities than ruptures, while many others argue that the differences were both quantitative and qualitative ones. This is one of the issues to be debated in a conference to be held on 4-5 December 2009 under the auspices of the Center
CCR Director Professor Lee Chin-Chuan has been invited to give lectures in the Academic Year 2008-09 at Lund University, Sweden; Central European University, Hungary; Rikkyo University, Japan; Chaotung University, Taiwan; Fudan Unviersity and Renmin University, China. From 29 to 30 October 2009 he will represent the CCR and the Department of Media and Communication to deliver a keynote
The Department is concluding an agreement on research collaboration with the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies at the prestigious University of Tokyo. “We are looking forward to starting a network of productive relationships with leading institutions in Asia,” said Professor Lee Chin-Chuan, in referring to this new initiative he has helped bring to fruition.
About 30 young communication scholars from Greater China will meet in Kunming on the campus of Yunnan Normal University on 11-12 August 2009 to discuss current research of mutual interest. This is an outgrowth of the Visiting Program for Young Scholars from China sponsored by the Department of Media and Communication, under which every year
