Jiang Fei – Center for Intercultural Dialogue

Dr. Jiang Fei is Dean of the School of International Journalism and Communication at the Beijing Foreign Studies University. He has a Ph.D. from the Department of Literature, Media & Communication studies from Sichuan University (Chengdu, China).

Previously he was Professor at the Institute of Journalism and Communication, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, where he also served as Director of the Department of Communication Studies, and Director of the Global Media and Communication Research Center. He is also the Secretary General of the Communication Association of China (CAC), and associate editor for the Journal of China Media Report Overseas.

Prof. Jiang has taught at several universities in China and has given invited lectures at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Taiwan National Chengchi University, and Lugano University (Switzerland). He was visiting scholar at Stockholm University (Sweden), Toronto University (Canada), University of British Columbia (Canada), Royal Roads University (Canada), Macquarie University (Australia) and the Annenberg School for Communications, University of Pennsylvania (USA). His research interests include communication theory, new media and intercultural communication studies, cultural studies, and post-colonial theory. He has published many papers for journals and book chapters, and authored three books on intercultural communication.

Books

Jiang, F. (2011). Communication and Culture [传播与文化]. Beijing: Chinese Communication University Press.

Jiang, F. (2005). Intercultural Communication in the Post-colonial Context [跨文化传播的后殖民语境]. Beijing: China Renmin University Press.

Jiang, F. (Ed.). (2005). Transnational Media in China [海外传媒在中国]. Beijing: CFLACPC (China Federation of Literary and Art Circles Publishing Corporation).

Representative Book Chapters and Journal Articles

Jiang, F. (2013). On the three waves of China’s communication studies: A commemoration of the 30th anniversary of Schramm’s visit to China & China’s communication studies in post-Schramm times. Studies in Communication Sciences, 13(2), 107–116.

Jiang, F. (2013, coauthored), Strategic Studies on International Media Development and the Enlightenment to China [国际主流媒体发展战略研究及其对中国国际传播的启示], Modern Communication [现代传播]. Issue 2.

Jiang, F. (2012). An Intercultural Communication Study from China’s Perspective [跨文化传播研究的中国视角]. In A. Fung (Ed.), The Imagination of Chinese Communication [华人传播想像](pp.137-194). Hong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press.

Jiang, F. (2012, coauthored). Reviewing Chinese Communication Studies 2011 [2011年传播学研究综述]. In Tang Xujun (Ed.), China Journalism and Communication Annual [中国新闻与传播年鉴]. Beijing: Social Science Academic Press.

Jiang, F. (2011, coauthored). Transnational Media Corporations and National Culture as a Security Concern in China. In V. Bajc & W. de Lint (Ed.), Security and Everyday Life (pp. 212-235). New York: Routledge.

Jiang, F. (2009, coauthored). Understanding Diaspora Cultures in the Context of Globalization. International Journal of the Humanities, 7(10), 115-130.

Work for CID:

Jiang Fei was one of the participants in the Roundtable on Intercultural Dialogue in Asia, co-sponsored by CID.

From March 11-23, 2012, I took on the role of visiting professor at the School of English of the Beijing International Studies University, in China. (In China, intercultural communication is often viewed as an extension of foreign language training in order to ensure that students achieve intercultural communicative competence.

As part of my responsibilities there, I taught a graduate seminar on research methods, and also delivered several presentations.

On March 13 and 16, I presented on the topic of “The Social Construction of Identity.” On March 20, the topic was “The History of Intercultural Communication in the United States.

On March 21, I participated in a workshop on “Training for Intercultural Competence in the United States; Prof. JIANG Fei, Director of the Department of Communication, and also Director of the Center for World Media Studies, at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, was the respondent. He and his wife, Dr. Viola Kuo HUANG, introduced my husband and me to a new form of Chinese buffet one evening.

My sincere thanks to Dr. HONG Liang, Associate Dean of the School of English and an intercultural communication scholar, for inviting me, organizing all of the events, including multiple meals with faculty and graduate students, and ensuring the success of the visit. Dr. GU Guoping (Gordon), from the American Studies department, helped with logistics ahead of time, and offered the official welcome when I arrived. Dr. David YU, Chair of the Department of Intercultural Communication, met with me over several days, and then provided the official farewell when I left. Dr. Ivory Juan ZHANG of the same department, participated in several events. Dr. Belinda Zou of the School of International Education not only attended most of the graduate seminar and the other lectures, but also volunteered to play tour guide and showed off parts of Beijing I had not yet visited.

Lu Qinsha (Emily), a master’s level student studying intercultural communication, was my guide and translator for the entire visit. To Emily and all of the other students, I hope you learned enough about research methods to have an easier time preparing your masters’ theses! To the faculty members, I look forward to continuing the connection in the future.

While in Beijing, although it was spring, there was one cold night, and it snowed. This was the view from the campus hotel (from the 18th floor) of the campus. The next morning students were having snowball fights!