Li Zhang
Research Fellow, China Policy Institute, Faculty of Social Sciences
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Biography
Dr. Zhang joined the China Policy Institute at the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies in October 2009 for the EU's FP7 project "Chinese Views of the EU". She previously worked as a research fellow in the National Centre for Research on Europe at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand and the European Union Centre in Singapore, under the European Studies in Asia (ESiA) Young Academics Fellowship. She has also worked in media and communication industries before as a journalist, editor and communication manager for many years.
Her research is interdisciplinary and mainly falls in the three areas:
· EU's relations with Asia, including EU's China policy, EU's external perceptions in Asia, and the mechanism of ASEM in EU-Asia relations;
· International Communication and Political Communication, particularly the role of news media and communication in transforming international relations, for example, the interaction between the news media and foreign policy, news management, information operation and public diplomacy;
· Chinese media studies, including the reform and development of Chinese media in the global context, correspondents and foreign news reporting, and the effects of media framing on social and political issues.
She was editorial assistant and administrative assistant for the International Journal of Žižek Studies and the International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics.
Expertise Summary
News media and foreign policy; Media, society and politics interrelations; News management and public diplomacy; Chinese media in the global context; EU-China relations; EU's external perceptions in Asia.
Research Summary
EU-China relations; EU perceptions in Asia; News media and international relations; news management and public diplomacy; media framing and its effects on social and political issues; Chinese media… read more
Selected Publications
ZHANG, L., 2011. News Media and EU-China Relations Palgrave Macmillan.
ZHANG, L., 2011. Building Communication Capacity for Good Governance: A Multi-leveled Analysis Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences. 4(1), 108-123
Current Research
EU-China relations; EU perceptions in Asia; News media and international relations; news management and public diplomacy; media framing and its effects on social and political issues; Chinese media in the global context; China's foreign relations
Future Research
More recently, I developed interests in Communication governance, Environmental communication, the Impact of the Internet on socio-polical change in China, and ASEM.