Call for Submissions
The Ninth International Conference on Chinese Media and Chinese Civilization:
The Image of China & Chinese Communication
August 2015, Wuhan, China
With intensified global communication and cultural exchange, China is paying more and more attention to having a voice in the world arena as it grows to become a world power. While China is molding its own image, it is making greater efforts in building its soft power and expanding its communication capacity. Such efforts can be seen from the national image video shown at Times Square, the internationally acclaimed TV documentary “A Bite of China”, and various platforms built by China’s Xinhua News Agency, CCTV and other national media. Considering the imbalances in global communication, China’s efforts to expand its capacity for international communication will contribute to building a more equitable and healthy new information and communication order in the world. To build a world with diversified voices, Chinese media professionals and communication scholars in and outside of China should not only closely monitor China’s process in building and communicating its image from historical, theoretical and practical perspectives, but also offer meaningful analysis and reflections of such a process within the context of globalization.
It is against such a backdrop that the Association of Journalism History (China), the School of Journalism and Communication of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China), and the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information of Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) will jointly hold the Ninth Conference on Chinese Media and Chinese Civilization. Since its launch in 1995, this conference series has been held eight times in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore, receiving wide support from communication scholars and students in and outside of China. To mark the 20th anniversary of this conference series, the ninth conference will be hosted again by the School of Journalism and Communication of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, which was a co-founder of this conference series and the host of its first conference in 1995. We hereby invite communication scholars and media professionals from China and abroad to attend the conference to share your research findings and views about the theme of this conference.
Submissions should be relevant but not limited to the following topics:
1. China’s national image building as a rising power
2. History, theory and practice of China’s international communication
3. Public diplomacy and national public relations
4. Cultural industry and China’s national image communication
5. Overseas Chinese media and China’s national image building
6. Mainstream media and China’s national image communication
7. Media system, ethnics, laws and China’s national image communication
8. History and reality of Chinese Civilization
9. Chinese communication and the Chinese identity
10. Culture and politics of China’s national image communication
11. New media and China’s national image communication
12. and other topics related to the conference theme.
Venue:
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
Schedule:
Registration: 19 August, 2015
Conference: 20-21 August, 2015
Conference Fee:
600 RMB for registration (exempted for students)
Deadlines and Important Dates
Application reply deadline: 20 April, 2015
Abstract submission deadline: 30 April, 2015
Full paper submission deadline: 30 May, 2015
Paper acceptance notification and invitation letter to be issued 20 June, 2015
Submission of Full Papers
The length of full papers must not exceed 10,000 Chinese characters.
The paper can be written in either Chinese or English. Conference presentation should be in Chinese.
All papers should be in Word format.
All submissions should include author’s name, affiliation, and contact information.
Contact Information
Submissions should be emailed to the following contacts before deadline.
For submissions from China:
Xiuqing Yang
School of Journalism and Communication
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
For submissions from overseas:
Xiaodong Yang
Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
Nanyang Technological University
For queries:
Haijiang Tang
School of Journalism and Communication
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Center for Intercultural Dialogue 