Bingchun Meng
Title and Affiliation: Professor, LSE
Time: Session 1, morning
Time: Session 1, morning
Course Description: Chinese media and communication industries have been undergoing profound changes in the last few decades. While champions of liberal democracy have been predominantly critical of the various ‘soft power’ campaigns that the Chinese state initiates, transnational media companies have wasted no time in not only entering the Chinese market but also incorporating Chinese investment.
Alvaro Mendez & Chris Alden
Title and Affiliation: Professor, LSE
Time: Session 1, afternoon
Time: Session 1, afternoon
Course Description: This course focuses on China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and how China is leveraging its material power in pursuit of global leadership through the implementation of ‘development as grand strategy,’ with a special focus on developing regions. China's economic position, coupled with an astute use of finances stemming from its neo-mercantilist policies, has enabled it to become the leading trading partner and a significant investor in the Global South. Moreover, through the BRI, the Global So
Ziteng Fan
Title and Affiliation: Associate Professor, Fudan University
Time: Session 1, evening
Time: Session 1, evening
Course Description: This course aims to deepen students’ understanding of the political dynamics involved in digital governance in China, focusing on governance institutions, policy strategies, and implementation processes. The course is divided into two main modules.
Timothy Hildebrandt
Title and Affiliation: Associate Professor, LSE
Time: Session 2, morning
Time: Session 2, morning
Course Description: China’s meteoric rise as an economic superpower has improved the well-being of most its citizens. But development has also brought with it a number of new challenges, affecting some more than others and heightening the inherent difficulties that come with managing any society with diverse interests and needs.
Pierre ANDRIEU
Title and Affiliation: Instructor at ESCP, ISIT and IRIS in Paris
Time: Session 2, afternoon
Time: Session 2, afternoon
Course Description: The relations between Europe and China are old and multifaceted. Without going back to the Silk Road, commercial and intellectual contacts were enriched from the 17th century, notably with the arrival of the Jesuits at the Imperial Court. Then exchanges of all kinds with Europe contributed, sometimes dramatically, to reaffirming China's eminent place in the world. From their inception, United Europe and the PRC have maintained growing economic and political relations commensurate with their resp
