The third NDCC conference in connection to the "New Discourses in Contemporary China" project was successfully held in Nankai University on 15-16 May, 2009. About eighty discourse analysts from different countries and areas participated in sections of plenary speeches, parallel presentations and plenary discussions. See a brief report.

Chinese Studies Research Group activities in Term 3 (20 April to 26 June, 2009)

The Third International conference on "New Discourses in Contempoaray China" (NDCC 2009) will be held 15-16 May, 2009 in Tianjin, China. For more details see this page.

Motivation and Iconicity in the West and the East -- A Comparative Study of the Western and Chinese Linguistic Philosophical Traditions" ----CSGR seminar, Wednesday, 11 March, 2009, 3:00-4:30 p.m., in Room B99, Bowland. Abstract

"Soft Power to Project: Discursive Formulation of Legitimation in Chinese Official Discourse on Sino-African Relation in the 21st Century" ----CSGR seminar, Wednesday, 25 Feburuary, 2009, 3:00-4:30 p.m., in Room B99, Bowland. Abstract

Chinese Studies Research Group activities in Term 2 (12 January to 20 March, 2009)

"UK's Engagement with China and Chinese Media's Response" ---- CSGR seminar, Wednesday, 11 February, 2009, 4:00-5:30 p.m., in Room B99, Bowland.Abstract

"The Discursive Representation of Migrant Workers in the People's Daily"---- CSRG seminar, Wednesday, 4 February, 2009, 3:00-4:30 p.m. in Room B99, Bowland College.Abstract

Prof. Hailong Tian is invited to give a talk on "New discourses in contemporary China: Conceptualisation of the social" at the Centre for Nordic studies, Helsinki University, 1 April 2008. The talk is one of the the seminars of "Conceptual Histories of the World and Global Translations" convened by Prof. Bo Strath and is associated with the NDCC project. Abstract

"Marxism in China: New Development after 1978" ---- CSRG seminar, Friday 7 March, 2.00 p.m. - 3.30 p.m. in Room B80. Abstract

"Representation of Intellectual Women in a Popular Chinese Monthly Magazine" ---- CSRG seminar, Friday 15 February, 2.00 p.m. - 3.30 p.m. in Room B80. Abstract

COMING EVENT -- CHINESE STUDIES RESEARCH GROUP (CSRG) will have its second seminar on Friday 9th November at 2:00 - 3:30 in Room B80, Bowland College. Dr Cao Qing will talk on Chinese discourse of Tianxia. More...

CHINESE STUDIES RESEARCH GROUP (CSRG) was launched on Friday 26 October, 2.00 p.m. ¨C 3.30 p.m. in Room B80, Bowland College. Prof. Chilton chaired the event, and Jing Sheng from the Department of Education reported her research on "A Literacy Events Network Analysis of Chinese Migrant Children's online News Reading Practices in Britain". CSRG is a new event associated with NDCC. It will have four seminars in this term (Michaelmas): 26 Oct. Friday 2:00 - 3:00; 09 Nov. Friday 2:00 - 3:00; 23 Nov. Friday 4:00 - 5:00; 07 Dec. Friday 2:00 - 3:00. Everyone is very welcome to participate in the CSRG seminars and contribute.

The SECOND COLLOQUIUM of New Discourses in Contemporary China was held in Lancaster University on 20-21 September, 2007. About thirty people participated in the presentations and workshops.

Professor Chilton chaired the opening ceremony. He briefly introduced to the audience the project New Discourses in Contemporary China: Social Change and Anglophone Perceptions, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, and expressed his thanks to Professor Zhang Maizeng for his contribution to the first conference held in Nankai University in April 2006, as well as Professor Bob Jessop and Professor David Brown for their support to the organization of this event. Professor Jessop and Professor Brown also made welcoming speeches. Later that evening, at the conference dinner, Professor Anna Siewierska, head of the department of Linguistics and English Language welcomed the participants at the Colloquium in the context of the growing collaboration between the university and several universities in China. (View the colloquium report , the abstracts, the participants, and the photo)

The 6th International Conference on Chinese Sociolinguistics (Call for Papers) Topics include: Digitalization and Language Development, Global Media and Culture Communication, Media Literacies, Cross-linguistic and Cross-cultural Communication, Professional Communication in Transnational Settings, Multilingual and Multicultural Development, The International Dissemination of Chinese, Language Policy and Language Planning, Language Contact and Language Change, Language Variation, Language Standard, and Language Testing, Digitalization and Resource Development for Language Learning, Teaching and Testing, Multimedia for Language Teaching and Research, Acquiring First and Additional Language(s), Teaching First and Additional Language(s)

News on new book: Discourses of Cultural China in the Globalizing Age edited by Doreen D. Wu, 2008, Hongkong University Press. (contents and order form)

Strengthening Links with India and China The newly launched JCMS Scholarships are restricted to post-doctoral scholars or postgraduate students or who are currently based at a university or research institute in India or China and wishing to undertake field research on aspects of EU integration. Please see the UACES website for details on both UACES and JCMS Scholarships (www.uaces.org/scholarshipsandfellowships.htm). The deadline is 15 October 2007.

The NDCC MAILING LIST gets working on 22 Dec. 2006. Up to 50 British and Chinese scholars are on the mailing list at the end of 2006. To join the discussion on the list please email: ndcc@lists.lancs.ac.uk

COLLOQUIUM TO COME: NEW DISCOURSES IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA, 20 - 21 September 2007, Lancaster University, England

Day 1: keynote speakers invited from different parts of China and the West on New Discourses in Contemporary China and representations of contemporary China in the Western media.
Day 2: Hands-on workshop based on texts to be agreed on in advance.
More about the conference

NDCC LAUNCHED AT LIP RESEARCH GROUP ON 23 OCTOBER 2006, MONDAY 17:00 ¨C 18:00

At the seminar of the Language, Ideology and Power (LIP) research group at the Linguistics Department, Lancaster University, Ruth Wodak launched the NDCC project by introducing the project in terms of its aim, the way of doing the research, and the workshop to be held September 2007. Hailong Tian introduced the first NDCC conference in Nankai, his research and his role of Network Facilitator. As a real start of the project, the group did the discourse analysis of the Bush's statement of the North Korea nuclear weapon test and the statement of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of PRC. They also suggest some topics for analysis, such as the texts pertaining to the Olympic Games in Beijing and London.