ARI ASIA TRENDS 2010 - Voices in the Gap: Media and Culture in China's Era of Transition

This seminar series is brought to you by Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore in collaboration with National Library Singapore.


Voices in the Gap: Media and Culture in China's Era of Transition
Mr. David Bandurski, University of Hong Kong
Ms. Tania Lim, Independent Scholar, Singapore


Outside China, the predominant view of Chinese media and culture is defined by the dynamic of censorship and control. Reports on media events in China generally suggest a repressive environment marked by successive crackdowns and tightenings of control, punctuated by occasional surprises of boldness. While control is an enduring feature of China's media, however, the full picture is far more complicated. In this talk, Mr. Bandurski will address the current state and development of media and culture in China, and the challenges facing free expression in the country, through the dynamics of control and change. He will also discuss the implications of domestic media policies for China's long-term development and its image internationally.




ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

David Bandurski, an award-winning freelance journalist, is currently a researcher at the China Media Project (CMP), a research program of the Journalism & Media Studies Centre at the University of Hong Kong. He received a Human Rights Press Award in 2008 for a report on China's use of professional associations to enforce internet propaganda guidelines, and was co‐recipient of a Merit Prize in Commentary in 2007. He is the editor of Investigative Journalism in China (Hong Kong University Press, 2010 Mr. Bandurski doubles as an independent film producer and director through his Hong Kong production company, Lantern Films China. His production debut, the Chinese independent documentary GHOST TOWN, directed by Zhao Dayong, premiered at the New York Film Festival in October 2009 and has since screened around the world. His documentary MY FATHER'S HOUSE, on the growing African population in Guangzhou through the story of an underground Nigerian church, is set for release in 2010.

Tania Lim received her PhD in Media and Communications from Queensland University of Technology, with Australia's first creative industries faculty. She now works on policy issues related to the creative sector ranging from arts to media. Her research areas of interest include development of small East Asian media and communication systems, global media and audio-visual industries.

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